Today. thousands of devout and patriotic Poles will gather at the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland to testify to their continuing faith in a persecuted church and their adherence to principles of religious and constitutional liberty that have been intertwined throughout the thousandyear history of the Polish state. But the Polish Communist government has made every effort to hinder preparations for these ceremonies and to downgrade their significance. They have refused to permit a visit by Pope Paul on this occasion. and have refused to grant visas to thousands of foreigners seeking to attend these ceremonies. Perhaps most important. they have made every attempt to discredit the movement for reconciliation between Poles and Germans. a movement that was given new impetus by the recent exchange of conciliatory letters between the Polish and German church hierarchies. - What better evidence do we need to document the point that the Polish Communist regime lives on fearthat its very existence would be threatened if it could no longer raise the specter of an ominous threat lying to the West and of undying enmity between the Polish and German nations. But the Polish people know better.