Word: gomulkaism
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...determination to help Poland's new government maintain its independence from Russian domination, that at U.S. invitation Warsaw has agreed to send a Polish mission to economic talks in Washington in the near future. Chief item likely to be negotiated: a request by the hard-pressed Gomulka government for a big (at least $100 million) loan to finance the purchase of U.S. surplus agricultural products, farm and mining machinery, fertilizers...
Some Jewish children are reported to be suffering the same discrimination. Anti-Gomulka Communists are obviously exaggerating the situation for propaganda purposes, to suggest that Gomulka is a tool of the church. But there is no doubt that many Catholics are in fact getting a measure of revenge for years of persecution. Latest development: the formation of the Secular School Society "to protect the children of non-believers against all manifestations of discrimination...
...serve up the party-line pap that passes for reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press coverage for honest, vivid reporting...
...ideas how to write than to teach journalists how to have ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms in agricultural policy (later adopted in large part by Party Secretary Gomulka) that include virtual liquidation of Russian-type collective farming in favor of new incentives for independent farmers...
...last month the press had become so free that Gomulka, in alarm before the elections, tightened censorship. "The time has come," he warned Warsaw editors, "to find some good things to say. We'll self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print...