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Four of Hlasko's stories were made into movies. He became literary editor of the student newspaper Po Prostu, an audaciously outspoken weekly, until it was banned; he helped found the magazine Europa, but it was suppressed before its first issue reached the newsstands. Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer. Last year his novel, The Eighth Day of the Week, which dealt with the homelessness of a pair of Warsaw lovers, won Poland's highest literary award, though the Polish-West German...
Polish journalists believing that limited freedom is better than none, have carefully avoided open battle with the ruling Communist Party. They have been sorely provoked nonetheless. Soon after the government's suppression of the free-swinging youth magazine Po Prostu (TIME, Oct. 14) last fall, party censors salted liberal wounds by smothering at birth a new intellectual magazine named Europa...
...demonstrate what he planned, Gomulka expelled from the party ten members of the board of editors of Po Prostu, the free-speaking newspaper that had demanded more freedom, balanced these by ousting a Stalinist provincial party secretary and four of his lieutenants in Koszalin. Declared Gomulka: "The party does not intend to close the wide-open doors of democratic freedom. But it must watch these doors more closely than in the past...
Badge of Honor. The police's brutality aroused many who had been only mildly concerned over the fate of Po Prostu, and the next night a larger throng gathered in Narutowicza Square. The students flaunted their bandages as badges of honor. In the shadow of the Church of Swietego Jakuba the rioters played a kind of reckless Warsaw pingpong with the police, picking up their tear-gas bombs and hurling them back into their ranks...
Gomulka announced that the ban on Po Prostu would remain, and called a meeting of all Warsaw editors to demand greater conformity. The students retaliated by hanging a large banner from their largest hostel bearing a two-word demand: "Free Speech...