Word: wladislaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unhealthy Ambitions. Last September Poland's Vice Premier Wladislaw Gomulka fell into disgrace because he disagreed with Soviet economic plans for Poland. Next to go was Greece's Communist Boss...
Moscow had raised Poland's bald-domed Wladislaw Gomulka from the Communist underground to a place of power. Last week, through Poland's Communist Party (called the Polish Workers' Party), Moscow slapped him down. The reason: Gomulka, like Yugoslavia's Tito, had become a dangerous "nationalist...
Midway in the voting, rolypoly Speaker Wladislaw Kowalski rang for order. Gravely he announced: "Some of you have been putting ballots into the basket openly. This is a secret vote. You must fold your ballots, so your choice cannot be seen...
...Secretary of State Without Portfolio and Secretary of the Cabinet, who has the last word on foreign affairs; Hilary Minc, Minister of Industry; Colonel Roman Zambrowski, vice director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the six-man Presidium of the National Council; and Wladislaw Gomulka, Secretary General of the Polish Communist Party...
Last week Stanislaw Mikolajczyk tired first, resigned his post as Premier of the Polish Government in Exile. Out of the London Polish Government with him went the Polish Peasant Party, the strongest of the four coalition parties which make it up. President Wladislaw Rackiewicz asked Vice Premier Jan Kwapinski, a Socialist (and Russophobe), to form a new government. But with the Peasant Party gone, it did not look as if he would succeed. For ex-Premier Mikolajczyk there were two courses open: 1) he could go into permanent political exile; 2) he could join the Lublin Government, for whom...