Word: gomulka
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Last week the Gomulka government established a new first in satellite propaganda: by releasing the long-suppressed antiprostitution film Paragraph Zero, it began a serious campaign to end past blindness and falsehood. But this was only a beginning. Advised Social Analyst Lastik: "We should concern ourselves with the moral state of our public...
...straight Communist ticket, a prince of the church who threw away the Vatican rule book in his dealings with the state. He is also the embodiment of the fervent faith of more than 27 million Poles. Wielding that faith as a moral weapon, Wyszynski has forced from Wladyslaw Gomulka's government a degree of religious freedom and recognition for his church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal and the commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both the Catholic and the Communist camp, personally...
...cardinal knows that Poland's antiStalinist, National Communist regime represents the utmost limit to which Moscow will let Poland go in the direction of freedom. If Poland's passionately anti-Communist people, hoping for a truly democratic government, were to overthrow or even threaten the Gomulka regime, the result would be as sure as shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski...
...cardinal's words had extra political weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, plans a trip to Poland, his native country, where he will be especially interested in studying the political problems of the new Gomulka government. Brzezinski, who traveled in Soviet Russia last summer, advises students who may be going there this year to visit Leningrad and Tiflis, which he says are "freer and more open" than other Soviet cities...