Word: wyszynski
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...security . . . are bound up with the camp of socialism." In fear of non-Communist strength, he demanded that some candidates, notably Socialist Edward Osubka Morawski, onetime Prime Minister (1945-47), withdraw. But by far the most important of Gomulka's moves was his alliance with Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski. Apparently convinced that many church freedoms won last October would be lost if Gomulka was rebuffed, the Roman Catholic Episcopate told Catholics that they had a duty to vote. Result: thousands of Poles rushed to the precinct stations to make sure their names were on the electoral rolls...
...Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, boldly attacked PAX. Later, the Vatican proscribed PAX's newspaper and a book by Piasecki which called Communism the true Christianity. When Gomulka returned to power last October, many PAX leaders hastily and publicly repudiated it. The total failure of PAX to split Poland's Catholic leadership was a measure of how grossly the Soviets had underestimated the vitality of the Polish church...
...first acts of 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...
...students demonstrated all over the country. The situation paralleled that in Hungary, except that the Communist leadership apparently reacted in time, and so earned a breathing space. Now something of a hero for his defiance of Khrushchev, Gomulka is using every available means, including the pleas of released Cardinal Wyszynski, to foster "national unity and calm." According to all reports out of Poland, the people are in a calmer and less demanding mood than for some time past, sobered not so much by Gomulka's words as by the example of savage Soviet repression in Hungary...
...Wyszynski's parting words showed his anxiety for Poland's future. "Poles can die heroically. A man can only die once and thus quickly cover himself in fame, but our lives are spent in long years of toil, trial and tribulation. That is still more heroic. This is the kind of greater heroism which the present time requires...