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...release of Cardinal Wyszynski brought a new era of cooperation between church and state; religious instruction was readily available again for any who wanted it, and Catholic parents rushed to register their children in such numbers that Communists began to talk about a "holy war." The Warsaw newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that in a school near Lublin "no child wants to sit beside the daughter of the secretary of the district Party Committee. The children say that they are afraid to sit with a girl who is in alliance with . . . the Devil . . . More and more children who do not attend...
Polish dailies have not only covered stories like Western papers; they are even beginning to look like them. Though some Warsaw papers have long carried drab, inconspicuous ads, Trybuna Ludu, the official party organ, announced last month that it would start running display ads, which are nonexistent in other satellite papers. Other Warsaw dailies scrambled to sell space, now run whole pages of bold-faced ads for free enterprisers. On one freezing day last week, a Warsaw brewery urged Zycie Warszawy readers: "If you have a cold, fix yourself a mulled beer." Urged the Polish equivalent of an Arthur Murray...
...danger facing Communist Party Secretary Gomulka is that the Soviet Union may step in and attempt to reoccupy Poland on the excuse that he no longer has control of his country. Said Gomulka's Trybuna Ludu last week: "Do the passive onlookers not realize that there are hostile forces vitally interested in the rule of chaos and in the paralysis of authority...
Confused Response. The problem of Poznan troubled the Communists too. "The basis for the bloody riots was the dissatisfaction of the workers," the Polish party organ Trybuna Ludu admitted. (The Russian charge that it was all stirred up by the Americans was not repeated in Poznan, where the people knew better.) There were signs of a conflict between Party Secretary Edward Ochab (once described by Stalin as "a Communist with some teeth in him"), who was said to be for reprisals, and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a turncoat Socialist and ex-inmate of Nazi concentration camps (four years in World...
...Socialism"-i.e., Red army steel and munitions plants. The Poles had other troubles. Cracow's Communist Echo grumbled that "not even State [haberdashers] can conceal sleeves of different lengths, bursting seams, ill-fitting collars, missing buttons." Polish children go hungry. The potato supply, wrote Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu last month, is only 40% of the quota; since then, spuds have become even scarcer...