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...President of Poland's coalition Government, Communist Boleslaw Bierut claims to be "above politics." Last week, reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, the Polish President gave a delegation of opposition leaders from Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party a sample of this lofty impartiality, Communist style. "Change your, line. Change your tactics," he told the group "and there will be no struggle. If you don't go in with the coalition, tears will be your lot and you will be beaten. We will use all means in our power to break...
Like many a war correspondent, the New York Herald Tribune's Pulitzer Prizewinner Homer Bigart feared that postwar reporting would seem dull. But last week, in his new post in Poland, he was in no danger of being bored. Bigart, who describes his own politics as "left-of-center," expected to be welcomed in Warsaw. Instead, he found himself in the thick of a fight...
When he presented his passport, General Grosz, Poland's director of press information, said: "Ah, yes, your paper is unfriendly to us." He produced a clipping and began reading aloud. But, protested Bigart, that was an editorial from the Washington Star. "Makes no difference," said Grosz, "I know you've said bad things about us." The Communist party blamed "excitable dispatches" of foreign correspondents for the strained relations between Poland and the U.S. "Meanwhile," wrote Bigart, "the Government-controlled press faithfully follows orders to 'furiously attack' American and British correspondents whose reports are objectionable...
...poisoned atmosphere of Warsaw without developing a bias which ... is bound to color his reports, and there is no correspondent in Poland today who hasn't in his heart aligned himself with either the Communist-dominated Government or ... Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant party." Bigart had, for one; he was now firmly antiCommunist. He added: "There is no middle ground, no impartial witness...
...Other winners: The Scranton Times, public service; Reporters William L. Laurence and Arnaldo Cortesi (New York Times), Homer Bigart (New York Herald Tribune), Edward A. Harris (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...