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Chile played host to a large contingent of eager Russians, including Playwright-Author (Days and Nights) Konstantin Simonov, a power in the Soviet Writers' Union; the Cultural Ministry's Latin American chief, Konstantin Chugonov; Neurologist Leonidas Koreisha; and the 18-man Dynamo soccer team. Dynamo lost its Chilean match 1-0, but the Simonov team scored by making agreements to exchange teachers with Chile, to send copies of all books printed by Moscow University in return for copies of a single Chilean literary magazine, to send the Moscow Dramatic Theater for a visit in 1959. "Gentlemen, make your...
Slipped Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...
...moment of his triumph last October, Wladyslaw Gomulka cried: "The Polish people can now trust their army. It is subordinate to its own government." Gomulka dismissed Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as Poland's Minister of Defense, sent some 50 Soviet "advisers" back to Moscow, and replaced the army's Soviet-styled uniforms with others more distinctively Polish. But last week a top Polish official admitted that even these concessions had failed to mollify the bristling patriotism of Poland's soldiers, who seemed dissatisfied not only with Gomulka's uneasy halfway house of independence, but with Communism...
...Khrushchev's descent on Warsaw the newly reinstated Gomulka had been on the point of firing the Soviet officers commanding Poland's 25-division army and had promised reforms in government. Last week, instead of being fired from the Polish Defense Ministry, Russia's Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was apparently to be gently pushed upstairs into Marshal Ivan Konev's job as top commander of all Warsaw Pact forces. Some 30 Soviet officers "resigning" from Polish units were wined and dined and presented with Polish decorations before going back to Russia...
...They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet soldier who had acted as Stalin's (and Khrushchev's) proconsul in Poland since...