Word: gomulkaism
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Politically, the generation of traditional and dedicated Communists who have clustered around Party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka, 65, may soon be giving way to young leaders epitomized by Stanislaw Kociolek, who at 37 is the youngest Vice Premier in Europe. Economically, the country, after three years of frustrating stagnation, is about to make its first departure toward more efficient industrial management. Culturally, Polish writers, dramatists and movie makers, who in the late 1950s knew a brief period of relatively untrammeled creativity, are hoping for greater artistic freedom...
...held. On the other hand, as a common saying puts it, "In Bonn, secrets are kept only from those who should know." Last April, the chief of Bonn's trade mission in Warsaw spoke openly about Brandt's private letter to Poland's Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka because he had not been told that the letter was supposed to be secret...
...World War II, and for a time was a member of the underground. He was equally opposed to the Communist takeover of Poland at the end of the war, and in his position as a popular novelist and journalist, he became one of the most outspoken opponents of the Gomulka regime...
...Warsaw, the official newspaper Zycie Warszawy reflected Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka's newly amiable attitude toward Bonn by suggesting that German-Polish talks on the renunciation of force were "imminent." This week the two nations open new discussions on trade...
Seizing on hatred of the Germans as a popular unifying theme, Poland's postwar Communist government has rarely missed a chance to belabor West Germany as a haven of unrepentant Nazis. Now, in an abrupt switch, Party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations in return for West German acceptance of the Oder-Neisse Line as Germany's legal eastern boundary. The motivation is economic: in search of up to $400 million to modernize their old plants, the Poles hope that a more friendly political atmosphere might bring in much-needed West German...