Word: gomulka
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...Extracted, after almost three weeks of negotiations with the Polish economic-aid mission in Washington, the first hard estimate of what the Gomulka government expects of the U.S. to help Poland maintain its shaky independence from Moscow. The request: some $200 million worth of surplus U.S. farm products, to be sold for Polish zlotys, and a $100 million Export-Import Bank loan for the purchase of U.S. machinery. Even though the State Department is thinking in terms of some $30 million, California's William Fife Knowland, Senate minority leader, declared he would continue to oppose any sum until Soviet...
Revisionists were unwilling to fight Gomulka because most of them sensed that he was acting to impose needed discipline on his confused party. Many young men had carried on as if Poland were about to become a bourgeois democracy forthwith, when it was obvious that the Russians were still watching and calculating every move in Poland. But there were deeper murmurs of discontent when Gomulka began replacing revisionists with sectarians in his government...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...
Party Conscience. Nowak was a member of the hated Bierut Politburo during the years Gomulka was under arrest, a sponsor of schemes to prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...
Nevertheless, Wladyslaw Gomulka personally rammed Nowak through as one of his three Deputy Prime Ministers. Defending his candidate against stormy attacks by other Cabinet members, Gomulka lashed out at the revisionists, insisted that Nowak's appointment was necessary to keep party unity...