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Last week the tension between writer and commissar stretched even tighter. The party decided to turn the independent-minded daily Sztandar Mlodych (Standard of Youth) into a house organ for the Communists' discredited Union of Socialist Youth Association. Then Stalinist Author Leon Kruczkowski, chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, bluntly warned the press that censorship will become an even stronger "weapon of cultural policy...
...seems immune to party lockjaw is a twelve-page satirical weekly with the apt name of Szpilki (Needles). Garishly printed on cheap paper, cocky, 24-year-old Szpilki (pronounced "shpeelky") sticks its needles into Communist hides from Moscow to Warsaw. In a cartoon deriding the cultural isolation of Leon Kruczkowski and other hacks on the party's Trybuna Literacka (Literary Tribune), Szpilki this month depicted three self-pitying wallflowers on a vast, empty dance floor. Caption: "The Trybuna Literacka Lonely Hearts Ball...
...with excitement the first time two hands were raised in abstention. After this first tentative show of independence, few State Council candidates got unanimous support. One Catholic writer collected seven abstentions and a former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just don't like him." Nothing like it had happened in Poland in a long...
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