Word: gomulkaism
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...Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued at each stop hardly illuminated what pressing business could have made fellow travelers of the Kremlin troika...
...Generals Say No. In a country where 2,800,000 Jews were killed little more than two decades ago, it was a blatant invitation to prejudice. Gomulka followed the invitation with action...
After Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka's decision to break off diplomatic ties with Israel last June at Moscow's behest, there was a modicum of wry truth in a gibe that quickly made the rounds in Warsaw: Tel Aviv was going to retaliate by withdrawing the Polish government. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, was not amused. In a scarcely veiled effort to draw on the old well spring of Polish antiSemitism, he charged: "The Israeli aggression on Arab countries has met with applause from Zionist circles of Jews who are Polish citizens and who even gave drinking parties...
...deputy for political affairs and the air-defense chief of staff-none of them Jewish-flatly refused to allow distribution of the taint ed propaganda. The generals were not likely to have risked their careers without the knowledge that their attitude had widespread support, but three weeks ago, Gomulka angrily fired all three...
...Next Gomulka organized a celebration in Warsaw's National Theater on the 23rd anniversary of Warsaw's uprising against the Nazis during the occupation. On hand to preside was Police Chief General Tadeusz Pietrzak, who rammed through a resolution that said, "the rulers of Israel have now allied themselves to the most reactionary neo-Hitlerite circles in the German Federal Republic"-a bit of the absurd more likely to confuse than rouse any anti-Semite left in Poland. Undaunted, the opposition to Gomulka continued to stand firm. Last week a top Polish army general, Ignacy Blum, was fired...