Word: jakub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough for Stalin. At a signal Gomulka's comrades turned on him. General Marian Spychalski was Gomulka's chief denouncer. Gomulka was accused of being "permeated with the Pilsudski spirit." Economic Minister Mine accused him of betraying his underground comrades to the Gestapo. Said Polit-burocrat Jakub Berman: "Let Comrade Gomulka repudiate his mystical notions and let him march together with the party." But the stubborn Gomulka had another idea. Said he: "I have come to the conclusion that my political career is over. It is my fault . . . Free me from my responsibilities and allow me to work...
...Dictator's death came that "wavering" in Soviet power which he had always feared. When destalinization got out of hand, the long-disciplined Polish intellectuals broke loose. The unrest spread to the workers and peasants. All Stalin's successors could think of was to order Jakub Berman and other hated leaders to disappear. Party Secretary Bierut died fortuitously in Moscow, Deputy Premier Mine took ill. In July came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most of all his patriotism, could perhaps win public...
Poland, the largest (pop. 26 million) of Russia's six European satellites, is in political ferment. In the past two months, nine cabinet ministers and two top justice officials have been fired from their jobs. Last week Vice Premier Jakub Berman, long regarded as Moscow's No. 1 man in Poland, resigned because of his "mistakes." Poland, stoutly Catholic, staunchly anti-Russian, has proved a hard outpost to rule...
...Jakub Berman. a onetime Stalin hatchetman, was one of the leading old-line Communists. Round-faced, quick-witted, Berman served on the Moscow end of the Polish Communist apparatus until the end of World War II, when he moved into Warsaw. Multilingual Berman lied smoothly to Western reporters in four languages, while he masterminded the ousting of Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk in 1947 and the later disbanding of some 100,000 Socialists. It was not clear last week how far Berman has been downgraded, but the effect of his official firing is a victory for the younger party members...