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...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 Police Boss Stanislaw Radkiewicz...
Unfederated Republic. The activities of the security police in the election campaign suggest that Poland is almost as much an unfederated Soviet republic as 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...
Routine Work. At this point the Major tried to telephone Minister of Security Radkiewicz in Warsaw. While we waited for the call, I sat in the office for half an hour and heard the Major, the Chief sitting at his elbow, deal with his routine work. Bandits had held up a truck in one place, political oppositionists were becoming very active in another. Some of the conversations went on in Russian, some in Polish. I was getting very tired and hungry and quite irritated when Warsaw called. The Major listened for a moment, then said O.K. and hung up. "What...
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