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...Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut paid a visit of state this week to Red East Germany. Object of his call: to exchange with the leaders of Soviet Germany a pledge of "everlasting peace and friendship, perhaps also to negotiate new economic and political pacts...
...Bierut detrained in East Berlin, Soviet German Premier Otto Grotewohl gave assurances: "Our worthy guest can be convinced that millions of men stand un-shakeably behind the policy of friendship ... support without reservations the peace border on the Oder-Neisse line." Bierut replied: "Our people have shaken hands over . . . the Oder-Neisse line." Red delegations chorused: "The Oder-Neisse line is the border of peace...
Meanwhile Wilhelm Pieck, President of the East German Communist government, left Moscow after a month's "rest cure" for a visit in Warsaw with Polish President Boleslaw Bierut...
...month-old agreement between the Roman Catholic bishops of Poland and the Communist Polish government broke down last week. In a recent letter to President Boleslaw Bierut, just made public, Primate Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski and Adam Cardinal Sapieha set forth a long list of grievances accumulated since the peace pact was signed...
...Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...