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...year Wladyslaw Gomulka, the bald boss of Polish Communism, has wobbled down the middle of the road, driving slowly away from Moscow but unwilling and unable to turn toward the West, titillating the Polish people with the heady wine of limited freedom without withdrawing the hangover of Communist controls. At times Gomulka must have wondered if the so-called "Polish road to Socialism," for which he had defied Nikita Khrushchev himself, was a- road at all. His policies of half-independence and half-freedom left everybody only half-satisfied and failed miserably to solve the nation's economic crisis...
Last week, addressing the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers (Communist) Party in Warsaw, Gomulka spoke in the tones of a man sorely beset. The Polish party, he admitted, "has partly dissolved itself into a nonparty mass," is riddled with disorientation and confusion." Said he, "It is high time to put an end to this." The first step: purge of half the party's 1,300,000 members, which would leave Poland's core of Communists the smallest proportionately in Eastern Europe...
...demonstrate what he planned, Gomulka expelled from the party ten members of the board of editors of Po Prostu, the free-speaking newspaper that had demanded more freedom, balanced these by ousting a Stalinist provincial party secretary and four of his lieutenants in Koszalin. Declared Gomulka: "The party does not intend to close the wide-open doors of democratic freedom. But it must watch these doors more closely than in the past...
...situation is basically unstable, Brzezinski stated, for as the external threat fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...
...said that Gomulka is now trying to rebuild the Polish Communist Party into an effective internal support...