Word: wladyslaw
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Last week Wladyslaw Gomulka, once the country's No. 1 Communist but for some time past under suspicion of being a Titoist, was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
When the Nazis invaded Poland, Author Wladyslaw Anders (who is now living in exiled retirement in England) commanded two divisions of Polish infantry and a cavalry brigade. In no time at all, these troops were trapped between the advancing German and Russian armies. Within a month, General Anders was lying in a Polish forest, half-dead from eight wounds, his divisions broken and scattered...
...Died. Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, 75, Polish-born magazine illustrator and maskmaker; of a heart ailment; in Newark...
...satellites to Russia. Ana, through her unswerving loyalty to Stalin, has risen in the Cominform. Now, Andrei Zhdanov, once its guiding spirit, is dead. Tito, once its most powerful member, is in disgrace. (The seat of the Cominform, has been formally transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest.) Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, co-chairman with Zhdanov of the first Cominform meeting, has just been demoted after a row with Moscow (see below). Albania has been cut off by Tito's defection. Communist power in Czechoslovakia is not yet consolidated...
...more than three months, until General Wladyslaw Anders' Poles finally took it on May 18, 1944, Monte Cassino had been a highly effective German army outpost, battered by Allied shells and bombs. Almost as soon as the Germans were driven out, the monks began building again. They heard reports of great collections being taken up in the U.S.,* but to date have received only occasional Italian funds. Meanwhile, the monks live in the undestroyed 10% of their Abbey while they try to rebuild the rest...