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...most part, Poland's food problems today are manmade. In 1956, bowing to the demands of a fierce peasantry, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka allowed farmers to leave Poland's collectives and return to their private plots. But, Marxist that he is, Gomulka surrounded the peasants with a maze of economic controls. Last year, when the government pegged the price of potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much...
Last week, in response to Gomulka's pleas, Russia grudgingly agreed to sell the Poles 3,000 tons of meat-about one day's supply. Greater relief might come from Washington, where visiting Polish Agriculture Minister Edward Ochab was reportedly negotiating for $50 million in U.S. surplus food. But in the long run, Wladyslaw Gomulka and his planners were clearly committed to the proposition that Poland's only salvation lies in a return to collectivization. Difficulty was that they dared not try to bring it back by force, were reduced instead to touting a voluntary system...
Fortnight ago, in desperation, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka introduced a new tactic to beef up the party in rural areas. Since offers of good jobs, high salaries, and softer living had not succeeded in winning new rural members, Gomulka decreed that Communist workers who commute from villages to town factories would have their memberships transferred to the village party list to give a "psychological boost" to scattered country members and make others "less hesitant" to join...
...Headed City. No newsman has described the delicate and complex situation with more insight than Reporter Gibney, a LIFE staff writer. With authority, humor, and political sophistication, Gibney describes how paradox has become a law of life in a country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...
Humane Socialism. Gibney believes that Gomulka, as the country's boss, has a fair chance to keep up his hair-raising tightrope act under the international big top. But he has no illusions about him. In the past, Gomulka "connived, cheated, threatened and bludgeoned" as much as any other Communist leader. When he returned to power in 1956, after years of imprisonment at the hands of the Stalinists, a more humane side emerged. He undertook to introduce democracy in the Communist Party and to build "humane socialism" (which Gibney describes as a "wedding of modern Communist practice with...