Word: gomulka
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...POLAND Gomulka's Lonely Road Two toasts offered at a Warsaw reception last week neatly characterized the widening split in world Communism. Said Red China's Premier Chou Enlai: "I propose a toast to the . . . solidarity of the Socialist countries headed by the U.S.S.R." Replied Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka: "I toast the Polish Party's . . . attitude of international proletarian solidarity . . . based on principles of equality and mutual respect...
...wily Chou was plugging the Socialist brotherhood of little brothers subservient to the Big Soviet Brother; Gomulka wanted a Socialist brotherhood in which all brothers would be equal. Ailing, bespectacled Gomulka was walking a lonely and dangerous road. He had taken a step unprecedented in Communist countries by calling elections this week that would not be truly free, but would at least allow a limited number of alternate choices as candidates from tame fronts, as well as the usual fixed slate of Communists...
...Decided, in line with the Administration's determination to aid Iron Curtain countries seeking economic independence from Moscow, to relax restrictions on exports to Poland, thus allow the Gomulka government to buy surplus U.S. farm products for dollars at prevailing world market prices...
...this crushing performance, Khrushchev and Malenkov met in Budapest with Communist leaders from Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia for a "comradely exchange of opinion." Significantly missing from this poor man's Cominform was not only Tito, that sometimes welcome and sometimes unwelcome Communist, but also Poland's Gomulka...
...seen Kadar. That privilege was reserved for the two visitors from Moscow, Khrushchev and Malenkov. In Budapest's Parliament House Khrushchev, in effect, told the Hungarians that they could not expect the same measure of independence as the Poles were now enjoying. Whereas stiff-backed Wladyslaw Gomulka had been able to stand off the bullying Russians, in Hungary the Russians were dealing, not with a man, but with a creature of their torture cells...