Word: gomulka
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Poland's diehard Stalinists had been waiting the opportune moment to make a comeback. In the seven months of Wladyslaw Gomulka's leadership, no longer tied to Moscow or supported by police terror, the Polish Communist Party had lost much of its former authority and force. The time had come, said one opportunistic Communist leader, Boleslaw Piasecki, to end the "ideological chaos" and get closer to the Soviet Union...
...three months Gomulka, the man on a tightrope, had delayed calling the ninth plenum of the party's 80-man Central Committee while he attempted to discipline his highly vocal anti-Stalinist left supporters, who are demanding increasing democratization and secretly hope for a breakthrough to a Western European type of socialism. Last week, under increasing pressure from the Stalinist right, Gomulka suddenly called the Central Committee together...
Despite the joy most Poles take in their religion, the country has been sliding down toward the doldrums, after the first few heady months following the October coup. The main trouble is economic; as one worker put it last week: "Gomulka kicked out the Russians and brought back the church. That is very good. Now I am waiting to see if we will eat better...
...Religious education. Gomulka's granting as much as he did was a concession he is hard put to defend before his fellow Communists, who see Poland's youth slipping away from them into the Catholic orbit. But Wyszynski is known to be in favor of reintroducing the parochial schools, and there is some laymen's pressure to make religious education compulsory for all-a demand that Gomulka cannot possibly grant and Wyszynski will not make...
...Rome, in addition to seeking guidance on these issues, Wyszynski may be working out a plan of action for the nerve-racking eventuality of Gomulka's political fall or replacement by Soviet intervention. He is also doing his best to win over the brassbound conservatives who still think that the stinging intransigence of old Cardinal Sapieha was the only way to deal with Communists...