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...Communists' chief weapon against the Catholic Church in Poland seemed broken last week. The weapon: PAX, an organization of fellow-traveling Catholic laymen. Faced with Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka's anti-Stalinist regime, and with a new agreement for cooperation between church and state (TIME, Dec. 17), PAX was frantically holding meetings, breaking itself up into splinter groups with new names, trying to get its members into other organizations. Explained Radio Warsaw: "PAX, disguising itself, would like to regain the confidence of the community." That confidence had never really existed...
...Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist on the satellites, who arrived in Budapest shortly before the Soviet crackdown began...
...rebuke to the commissar. But one official in the Foreign Office sighed: "The presence of Suslov at the congress would have been an embarrassment to [Italy's Red Boss] Togliatti, because it would have been clear evidence of Togliatti's subjection to Moscow, and to the toughest Stalinist in Europe. Togliatti will find things easier without him." As for fears that Suslov's presence might provoke anti-Russian demonstrations, a Western diplomat cracked: "A little pushing around wouldn't hurt...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka, after he shot back into power last October on a nationwide upsurge of anti-Russian feeling, was to set Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, free from house arrest. Like Roman Catholic leaders in other Soviet satellites, the cardinal had been taken into custody during the bitter Stalinist struggle to convert the 85% Roman Catholic country to the atheist Communism of its conquerors. Back suddenly in Warsaw, and instantly a national hero. Wyszynski set an example of restraint and patience to the faithful. In sermons and public announcements, he made the same pleas as Gomulka for national unity...
...effort to reorganize party and government. Gomulka is pursuing some highly unorthodox methods, by Stalinist standards. He has proved himself far more liberal than Tito. He is sending a delegation to study farm cooperatives in the Scandinavian countries, another to look into the U.S. building industry. He realizes that farm collectivization has failed, but does not know what to substitute. He promised the Roman Catholic Church that he would permit religious education in the schools in return for the recently freed Cardinal Wyszinski's appeal to his followers to keep the peace...