Word: cyrankiewicz
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Jozef Cyrankiewicz, Socialist leader and 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...
...formally opened their fifth battle, against their own present allies, the Socialists. But both parties know it will come. One Socialist M.P. told me: "We provide nearly all the government's support; the Communists have all the power." The Socialists do have six cabinet ministers, including Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz. But the Communists manage the ministries that matter. They control the army, the secret police, education, military courts (where the significant trials are held), foreign trade, and Poland's entire economic life...
Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...
...policy by offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...
...Mistreatment" & Cordiality. As expected, Cyrankiewicz's Cabinet marked a leftward swing. Mikolajczyk was out as Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture; also out were two of Mikolajczyk's partymen. In his place was Russian-trained Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Com munist Party's secretary. Undisturbed in his sub-Cabinet post of Under Secretary of State, but stronger than ever behind the scenes, was Moscow-trained Jakub Berman, Poland's real boss...