Word: gomulkaism
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...Communist Poland, where eligible voters are frowned on for not voting, some 17,650,000 voters out of a possible 18,615,185 showed up at the polls last week and voted overwhelmingly for Comrade Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist followers. Gomulka himself, who still lives on the reputation of having stood up to Khrushchev in 1956's October, gathered a record 99.54% of the votes in his Warsaw district...
...reason for his smashing victory was that the powerful Roman Catholic Church, although currently feuding with the Gomulka regime, chose not to proclaim its opposition to the Gomulka slate, allowing Catholic voters to vote as they pleased within the narrow choices offered them. Though no real opposition party is allowed, voters are permitted to pick from a slate of state-approved candidates, most of whom must be Communist. In Cracow, a Catholic candidate won more votes than Communist Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, who was on the same list, and in Wroclaw, a Catholic got more support than Gomulka's Foreign...
...uneasy accommodation between Poland's Communist leaders and the Roman Catholic hierarchy was coming to a close. Four years ago the Primate of the Polish Church, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, in exchange for concessions to the church, urged Catholics (98% of all Poles ) to back Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. Since then. Gomulka has steadily whittled away at Catholic prerogatives. Last week in two angry sermons, Cardinal Wyszynski served notice on Gomulka that he plainly recognized a "fight against the church...
...Polish people, he reminded Gomulka. knew what it meant to wear chains-and knew what it meant to throw them off. "Woe to all who wish to take freedom away from us." he said. "Man in defense will go into the catacombs, enter a conspiratorial defense against the outside world." Then, ticking off some 20 Communist groups aimed at separating Poland's youth from their faith, he cried: "I tell you. you Caesars, you will bow to your God, and you will serve only Him." With new national elections coming next month. Gomulka was obviously anxious to avoid...
...every Communist country, there is precious little the U.S. might buy that would not create a shortage elsewhere in the creaky economy. And whatever worthy project the U.S. decided to spend its zloty on would get nowhere unless the Gomulka regime was willing to make materials or labor available...