Word: gomulka
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...fissure seemed to be opening between Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski and the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently the cardinal used the pages of a Roman Catholic weekly to warn that any priest collaborating with the Communist-run "religious" organization called Pax would risk "canonical sanctions." The regime suppressed the issue, ordered the newspaper banned from all newsstands and bookstores-a surprise to Polish churchmen who noted that even Communist publications have recently been critical...
...Walter Ulbricht edgily scoffed at journalistic speculation that the changes in Moscow might inspire "similar revisions" in East German leadership. In Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads to socialism" now seemed to bear the approving imprint of Khrushchev's pudgy thumb...
...last October the quiet revolution came to Morawice. The people of the village heard newly appointed Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka say on the radio that no more money would be spent subsidizing collectives. Says Zofia Szczygiel: "Everybody out in the fields threw down their tools and went home for a drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...
...moment of his triumph last October, Wladyslaw Gomulka cried: "The Polish people can now trust their army. It is subordinate to its own government." Gomulka dismissed Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as Poland's Minister of Defense, sent some 50 Soviet "advisers" back to Moscow, and replaced the army's Soviet-styled uniforms with others more distinctively Polish. But last week a top Polish official admitted that even these concessions had failed to mollify the bristling patriotism of Poland's soldiers, who seemed dissatisfied not only with Gomulka's uneasy halfway house of independence, but with Communism...
...required the presence of Poland's accredited envoy at the Holy See, who represents not the present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. But insiders who know the importance of ceremonial minutiae at the Vatican could see tacit support of the exiles for the cardinal in the presence of their spiritual adviser, Archbishop Josef Gawlina, Ordinary to the Poles-in-exile...