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...order was not quite airtight: the Wilson directive permits the Navy to retain enough planes for "administrative" functions and assignment to the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and the Air Force to keep a few transport wings for strategic and tactical purposes. And so, in the time-honored way of stubborn service independence, the newly unified MATS will still have independent rivals-and it will doubtless remain for planners eight years hence to do something about it again...
...chief denouncer. Gomulka was accused of being "permeated with the Pilsudski spirit." Economic Minister Mine accused him of betraying his underground comrades to the Gestapo. Said Polit-burocrat Jakub Berman: "Let Comrade Gomulka repudiate his mystical notions and let him march together with the party." But the stubborn Gomulka had another idea. Said he: "I have come to the conclusion that my political career is over. It is my fault . . . Free me from my responsibilities and allow me to work in a small party position." But Stalin demanded a groveling confession, and when Gomulka resisted, he was dismissed and Moscow...
Unlike Czechoslovakia's Slansky, Hungary's Rajk and Bulgaria's Kostov, who went to the gallows after dutifully confessing their party errors, there was no great public show trial of the Polish "Titoist" Gomulka. One of the reasons for this was that the stubborn Gomulka could not be broken, stubbornly refused to make an abject confession. Fearing that some of his ad-lib remarks in court might involve others in their wartime duplicity, his Politburo comrades found reasons to delay Stalin's orders for a trial. They delayed the arrangements so long that Stalin died before...
They say that he became more and more difficult to work with, more demanding in his manner, more imperative in his decisions, more stubborn in pursuing his own way in defiance of contrary advice...
...Bolsheviks!" he declared pugnaciously. "We stick firmly to the Lenin precept-don't be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan-and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us. don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history...