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...Communist who knows the way the wind is blowing long before the official weather vanes swing into line. In stormy Poland he is a longtime Stalinist timeserver named Jerzy Putrament. When Wladyslaw Gomulka broke with Moscow last October, Comrade Putrament was so enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus...
...Soviet leaders were willing to sidetrack Molotov after years of service showed that they attached much importance to winning back Tito. The man they pushed forward in Molotov's place was a burly, bushy-haired fellow with a mobile face, Dmitry T. Shepilov, Central Committee secretary and Pravda editor...
Shepilov's one claim to international fame at this point was to have traveled the Middle East, presumably only as Pravda editor, and there to have sold President Nasser on the big buildup of Soviet arms in Egypt. Though lionlike in aspect, Shepilov was a mild man and an appropriate mouthpiece for the soft words of coexistence with which the Soviet leaders were then screening their far-flung operations. The reason for the great play for Tito only became obvious later: they wanted to use him to help dispel the trouble that, sooner than they expected, exploded in Hungary...
...nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other Communist country. One sure proof of their effectiveness is that the Polish press is being denounced in Pravda...
...Unwilling to make odious comparisons, Pravda failed to note that the U.S. in 1956 produced 115 million tons of steel, more than 500 million tons of coal, some 350 million tons of oil and 730 billion kw-h of electricity...