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Time was when the proceedings of anything calling itself the World Congress of Intellectuals would have been dignified and deadly dull. Last week, however, when such a congress met in Poland's Wroclaw (formerly Germany's Breslau), the spectators could not decide which ring of the circus to watch...
...congress in Wroclaw (once Breslau), Poland's Socialist Party heard a fateful summons last week. Poland's Communist Party Secretary General and Vice Premier, Wladyslaw Gomulka, told them: "Conditions make it imperative that a common front must lead to one party." What Gomulka meant was that the time had come for the Socialists to let themselves be swallowed by the smaller Communist Party...
...harder hours than almost anybody else to make up in energy what they lack in numbers. In the large slice of Germany which the Potsdam Conference turned over to Polish administration, they have the mayors of the two biggest cities: Zaremba at Szczecin and Bronislaw Kupczynski at Wroclaw (once Breslau...
...which Americans might as well pronounce woof) is 285 years old, and nobody knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow...
Last week 1 ,300 pinch-faced Polish men & women were studying at Breslau (now called Wroclaw) at the onetime German university. Biggest difficulty: the university at Breslau had no books in Polish, only in German. Groused one student: "Here I am, a boy from Lwów, at a Polish university, after a war which the Germans lost-and I must learn German before I can study...