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...does an unprincipled politician get along in a Communist-dominated country? Should he join 'em or fight 'em? Poland's Edward Osubka-Morawski tried it both ways, lost both times. The Communists made him Premier of Poland and last week they forced him out of Polish politics. His is the case history of an opportunist...
When war began, Osubka-Morawski was a small-fry organizer in the left wing of Poland's Socialist Party. In the wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret...
...Yugoslavia. The UB (security force) is modeled after (and trained by) Russia's MVD. The chief is Stanislaw Radkiewicz, former schoolteacher and longtime Communist. When his assistant, Stanislaw Vachowicz, a Socialist, complained of the UB's activities, he was forced to resign. When Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, Socialist stooge of the Communists, protested about the UB in Cabinet meetings, he was told to mind his knitting...
First result: Socialists who did not like the merger were arrested by the Government's Security Police. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, a Socialist who obviously gets along with the Communists, was not one of these. He grimly underlined the connection between electoral victory and control of the police in a memorable statement: "No Polish Government has ever been defeated in an election. The record won't be broken...
...Communists, Socialists and the government-sponsored 'Peasant Party' joined in a vote of confidence for the coalition government which included censure of Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party for 'obstructing national unity.' . . . Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski joined the attack. 'We must eliminate elements,' he cried, 'which are trying to conceal illegal reactionary underground activity by taking part in the government of the country...