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...Said he: "I have come to the conclusion that my political career is over. It is my fault . . . Free me from my responsibilities and allow me to work in a small party position." But Stalin demanded a groveling confession, and when Gomulka resisted, he was dismissed and Moscow-trained Boleslaw Bierut took over the party secretaryship...
...Died. Boleslaw Bierut, 63, first secretary of the United Polish Workers' (Communist) Party, longtime slippery provocateur who was picked by the Russians to head the Moscow-sponsored Polish (Lublin) government during World War II and was muscled in as head of state two days after the Red army "liberated" Warsaw; of a heart attack; in Moscow, where he was stricken after attending last month's 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party...
...play of muscle, China's Communist rulers last week celebrated their fifth anniversary in power. On the rostrum the Chinese Reds were joined by a star-studded delegation from other parts of the Communist empire, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, No. 2 man in Russia. Also present were Boleslaw Bierut, the Polish Communist chief, Kim II Sung, and eight other delegations from sister "people's democracies." "Everybody," cried Radio Peking, "can see the greatness of our country...
...neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could dispose of him. From Warsaw came Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Russian whom all Reds hold out to be a Pole to excuse his running the Polish Defense Ministry and, through that, Poland itself; also from Warsaw came President Boleslaw Bierut, who served as a Red quisling during the Communist-Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. From Albania came a mere vice minister-apparently Dictator Enver Hoxha is so plagued by local resistance and an interior minister with excessive ambitions that he dared not leave Tirana...
...went to the polls last week to elect its first Sejm (Parliament) under the new constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity...