Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congress in Wroclaw (once Breslau), Poland's Socialist Party heard a fateful summons last week. Poland's Communist Party Secretary General and Vice Premier, Wladyslaw Gomulka, told them: "Conditions make it imperative that a common front must lead to one party." What Gomulka meant was that the time had come for the Socialists to let themselves be swallowed by the smaller Communist Party...
Jozef Cyrankiewicz, Socialist leader and Poland's Premier, rejected Gomulka's invitation. He said: "Our party is and will be needed and is of benefit to the Polish nation." Delegates broke into prolonged cheering, winding up with a spirited singing of The Red Banner, which is the Polish Socialist hymn. And when Boleslaw Drobner, Cracow's short, walrus-mustached Socialist leader who always wears a black worker's jerkin, added, "We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our affairs," the demonstration was trebled in noise and duration. With a decisive...
...same speech Drobner also said: "We are willing to go forward arm in arm, but we don't intend to have them lead us by the hand." And a brother Socialist commented: "Only Drobner would have dared, and managed to get away with it." The sum of the two statements was simply that Poland's "united front" government would stay united, and the Polish Socialists' no really meant...
...promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...
Whispers from Below. A good many proprietors of London's predominantly Tory press have felt that the Socialist government is gunning for them, taking away newsprint so they'll have less space to criticize Labor. The proprietors have also heard the whisper of mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman...