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Show Bones of Last King of Poland Carried CarriedHome CarriedHome CarriedHome I UnceremoniouslyI Home ; Transfer Made Unceremoniously I In the dead of night recently recentlySoviet recentlySoviet recentlySoviet Soviet rallwaymen railwaymen at the Polish bor border border border der heaved on to the shoulders of oftheir oftheir oftheir their Polish PolJsh colleagues a wooden woodenbox woodenbox woodenbox box that bad had come by tram train from fromMoscow fromMoscow fromMoscow fromMoscowIt Moscow MoscowIt It was just a plain six toot foot deal dealbox dealbox dealbox box but that it was of some 1m im 1mportance importance 1mportance portance was Indicated by the fact factIt factit factit It bore no fewer than eight dlplo diplo dlplomatie diplomatic dipiomatic matie matic sealsOn sealsOn seals sealsOn On it was the inscriptIonCorpse inscriptionCorpse Inscription InscriptionCorpse Corpse CorpseUnconcernedly Unconcernedly the Polish PolJsh cus I ' toms men , me the DOX nox anout aooulLittle . . Little did they know that they were werehandlmg werehandling werehandling handlmg handling the remains of the last lastI lastking lastking king of Poland Stanislas Augustus AugustusPoruatowskJ AugustusPomatowski AugustusPomatowski PoruatowskJ Pomatowski favorite of the great great'Russian greatRussian greatRussian 'Russian Russian Empress Catherine II of oftragic oftragic oftragic tragic memory through whose in influence influence influence fluence he was elected king of Po Po- Poland Poland - . land after the death of Augustus ill III illIn IIIin HIin In 1763 1763Without Without ceremony the box was wasshipped wasshipped wasshipped shipped off to Wolczyn a village villagenear villagenear villagenear near Brest Litovsk Lltovsk and again With Without without without out ceremony it was placed in a anlcbe aniche aniche nlcbe niche behind behmd the altar aItar in the local localchurch localchurch localchurch church . . None but the parish priest and the thelocal thelocal thelocal local police chief chICf were aware that this was a king s homecoming For Forit Forit Forit it was here that Stanislas Stamslas Augustus Augustuswas Augustuswas Augustuswas was born in 1732It 1732It 1732 1732It It had been known that diplomatiC diplomatiCnegotiations diplomaticnegotiations diplomaticnegotiations negotiations had been taking place placein placein placeIn in Moscow to have the Polish PolJsh king s sbOdy sbody sbody bOdy brought to Poland for inter interment intermeat intermenf ment meat , , but the fact that tl1at the transfer transferwas transferwas transferwas was made so unceremoniously hurt hurtpublle hurtpublic hurtpublic publle public feeling fcelIng considerably The Thegeneral Thegeneral Thegeneral general opinion was that a king of ofPoland ofPoland ofPoland Poland should rest among his peers peersIn peersin peersin In the crypt of Wawel cathedral cathedral , . , in inKrakow ! InKrakow InKrakowBut n nKrakow Krakow KrakowBut But the entire Polish Pollsh press rever never reverberated neverberated roverberated berated with Indignation at what whatwas whatwas whatwas was held an indecorous way to treat treatthe treatthe treatthe the remains of a Polish sovereign |
