Word: gomulka
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...return of Gomulka and the release of Cardinal Wyszynski brought a new era of cooperation between church and state; religious instruction was readily available again for any who wanted it, and Catholic parents rushed to register their children in such numbers that Communists began to talk about a "holy war." The Warsaw newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that in a school near Lublin "no child wants to sit beside the daughter of the secretary of the district Party Committee. The children say that they are afraid to sit with a girl who is in alliance with . . . the Devil . . . More and more...
...Poles were thinking. In Warsaw's First District, for example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time...
Last week Gomulka postponed the Polish Workers' Party Congress, at which he would have had to announce executive and policy changes. Poland was now the country of the Comrade and the Cardinal. The election had reaffirmed the importance of the Cardinal, but the Comrade was still running things...
...example of Hungary was too vividly before Gomulka for him to doubt that the Russians would be glad to return in strength. He maneuvered in two directions. First he appealed for full support for his "National Unity Front," emphasizing that "to cross out our party's candidates is to cross out Poland from the map of European states." He insisted that Poland had to be Communist now: "The fate of Poland, its independence and security . . . are bound up with the camp of socialism." In fear of non-Communist strength, he demanded that some candidates, notably Socialist Edward Osubka Morawski...
This week voters flocked to the polls in impressive numbers. Under the critical scrutiny of more than 100 Western newsmen, the majority were seen to do as Gomulka and his wife did: take a ballot and place it directly in the ballot boxes without crossing off Communist names. Nobody seemed to mind, however, when others went behind the curtain (a rare privilege in a Communist country) to mark their ballots as they pleased. However ("to avoid the kind of excitement that would lead to violence") and to be on the safe side, the government planned to make public total counts...