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After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. In Poland, Communist Wladyslaw Gomulka had won a palace revolution by invoking the spirit of his people. In Hungary it was the people themselves who spoke. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...cream-colored building of the Council of Ministers on Warsaw's Stalin Avenue. This was the inner council, the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' (Communist) Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet soldier who had acted as Stalin's (and Khrushchev's) proconsul in Poland...
...Political Bureau was reduced to nine members. Still in the top jobs were Gomulka backers Alexander Zawadski, chairman of the Council of State, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Security Minister Roman Zambrowski and stouthearted Edward Ochab, who stepped down as First Secretary to make way for Gomulka...
...moment, Gomulka had control of the Polish apparatus, but his difficulties were not over. Would a simple change to a Polish-style Communism satisfy Poland's restless millions? The day might come when Gomulka would need the Kremlin's help as badly as he now needed to defy it. This awareness lay behind his offer of a continued collaboration with Moscow. But could Nikita Khrushchev accept Gomulka's cooperation on these terms? Khrushchev by his hasty flight to Warsaw had staked his own prestige on the event, and had suffered a rebuff...
...message was also sent to Polish students last week in connection with the creation of Wladyslaw Gomulka's national communist government. The note expressed congratulations for the goals which were realized in the change, and wished success to the students in their attempts to construct an educational system controlled from within Poland...