Word: gomulka
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...full-scale summit meeting of the world's 90-odd Communist parties sometime in 1965. Nikita had hoped to convene his sub-summit this fall, but the recalcitrance of his Eastern European satellites-notably Poland and Rumania-forced him to delay. Both Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej feared that an open split with China would free Khrushchev's hand to impose tighter discipline on them, and both leaders had learned to like their new (but still quite relative) freedom...
...note said nothing at all about Russia's most important squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...
...general manager of the $1.25 billion-a-year Friedrich Krupp empire, suave, handsome Berthold Beitz (pronounced bites) is the most controversial executive in postwar Germany. Polish Prime Minister Josef Cyrankiewicz calls him "an outstanding special ambassador from West Germany," and Poland's Communist Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka agrees. Nikita Khrushchev recently received him for a 21-hour chat. Bonn's professional diplomats snidely dub him "the foreign minister from Essen...
...closer ties with neighboring Eastern Europe, in part because Moscow's underdeveloped satellites would be a juicy market for Bonn's heavy industrial goods. But Communist Poland, for one, kept insisting on a major political surrender before any deal was signed: full diplomatic recognition of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish regime, and acceptance of Poland's Oder-Neisse western frontier, which includes a big chunk of pre-World War II Germany. With 14 million angry refugees from the East added to its population since the war, the Bonn government could hardly swallow that kind of proposition...
Abruptly deciding to leave Moscow by train six days early, Khrushchev dropped in en route to see Poland's Red boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was so surprised by the visit that he didn't even have time to deck Warsaw's streets with welcome banners. But Khrushchev had more on his mind than just a social call. The pair disappeared to an isolated hunting lodge in northern Poland to confer over the grave issues on the Berlin agenda. One is West Berlin, where Allied troops are still entrenched more than four years after his ultimatum that...