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Stomma appealed to Wladyslaw Gomulka's ruling Communists "to resurrect the energies of the nation" by trusting it with a "margin of freedom." To restore the "aim of life and joy in living" that might allay the "bitterness, nihilism, hooliganism and drunkenness" in the land, said Stomma, "confidence must be mutual-of people in authorities, but even more so of the authorities in the people. Only in this way can Polish society be united...
...Purge That Failed. In the last six months uneasy Poles have watched Gomulka, their hero of the October 1956 rising, edge back from his "separate road to Socialism" toward closer ties with Moscow. Gomulka has cracked down so hard on the press that he himself was recently heard to complain: "It is nothing but boring trash now." At Moscow last fall he publicly accepted Soviet leadership over all Communist nations. Last fortnight he met Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake...
...Russias also took time to mend an international fence. Without fanfare or announcement, he repaired to a hunting lodge on the Polish side of the Soviet's western borders, there met for three days in closely guarded secrecy with Poland's Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz. Likely subjects: 1) inter-party differences brought out at last November's Communist summit meeting in Moscow, notably Gomulka's reluctance to accept revival of any sort of Comintern; 2) coordinated moves to follow up Poland's plan for creating a "denuclearized" zone in central Europe...
Cracking down on the critics who had risen in the thaw after his own attacks on Stalin, he persuaded Gomulka to stifle the young bloods who had stirred Poland. "We are all Stalinists," he announced. "God grant that every Communist be able to fight as Stalin fought." ("We say the name of God," explains Khrushchev, "but that is only a habit. We are atheists.") To Westerners who predicted that his destalinization program could be used to topple the Soviet empire, he shouted: "You will no more succeed at this than you will succeed in seeing your ear without a mirror...
Clearly, when Gomulka said freedom, he meant only freedom to support Gomulka's own brand of Communism...