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...sins Gomulka was deprived of his job as party secretary general. Into the secretaryship Moscow put Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, another underground graduate who had pretended since his emergence in 1945 that he was aloof from party influences...
...Poland's Premier, rejected Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive no, the Socialists rejected Gomulka...
...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
...been banned from the election lists in ten districts, others had been imprisoned, 24 had been killed (TIME, Jan. 13). Mikolajczyk himself, though he was a Vice Premier of the Government, waited two and a half hours amidst a booing and jeering crowd to cast his vote. Provisional President Boleslaw Bierut and other Government members were whisked in & out of the same polling place by a phalanx of police...
...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...