Word: gomulka
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...Committee got wind of their plans and suppressed the Petofi Club. Janos despaired: "We are too young to be followed by the people. We are unknown. We must start organizing and think in terms of years of underground work." Janos had been excited by the news from Poland of Gomulka's successful defiance of Khrushchev, and sensed that there was a corresponding force waiting to be released in Hungary...
...Dear Comrade." Some crucial questions were still to "be determined by special agreement." One: Who will pay for the support of the troops? In Moscow last month Gomulka had indicated that the Russians had agreed to shoulder all expenses. Another question concerned the number, deployment and movement of Soviet units into and out of the country. Gomulka had already agreed that six Russian divisions should stay on in Poland "protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line," but during the October crisis the Russians had moved in a reported five extra divisions. Presumably, the Poles were negotiating to get them...
What Russia promises and what Russia delivers are often two different things. But Western experts consider the agreement a clear victory for Gomulka. For contrast, they point to the treatment of the Rumanian delegation that recently journeyed to Moscow to ask for a similar agreement. The Rumanians were baldly told that Russian troops will remain in Rumania, and that was that. By its very existence, the Polish agreement created a hope and a promise to the Poles that the Russians must meet their obligations-or arouse the Poles' anger if they...
...story, for they leave out the way Hungary's brave defiance of superior odds has seized the world's imagination. But in Poland, say all reports, the fires of freedom smolder as hotly as in Hungary. They are kept in check by the way in which Communist Gomulka has achieved a provisional and perilous independence. The stir and prod of the Polish people on Gomulka, and the concessions he must make, are the best chance that Poland will achieve a peaceful transition from puppet state to the Finland model of cautious independence-but independence nonetheless-in the shadow...
...Gomulka fails, the Russians and everyone else face the danger of another, and bloodier, Hungarian situation. Gomulka has appealed to Washington for loans to weather Poland's desperate winter. So far he has gotten much sympathy but no action: the question is still under debate. The Russians themselves know that in case of trouble they cannot be sure which way Poland's guns would point. They had a vivid demonstration when, in the first days of the October crisis, all Polish MIGs were ordered to fly to Russian air bases. Not one was flown...