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...were held. On the other hand, as a common saying puts it, "In Bonn, secrets are kept only from those who should know." Last April, the chief of Bonn's trade mission in Warsaw spoke openly about Brandt's private letter to Poland's Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka because he had not been told that the letter was supposed to be secret...
Died. General Wladyslaw Anders, 77, commander of World War II's famed 2nd Polish Corps, which fought gallantly in Italy; of a stroke; in London. The commander of a cavalry brigade in 1939, Anders was captured by the invading Russians, and imprisoned along with thousands of other officers until 1941 when they were released to fight the Germans. His corps will be remembered for its dogged and victorious assault on Italy's Monte Cassino Monastery, which opened the road to Rome...
...Warsaw, the official newspaper Zycie Warszawy reflected Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka's newly amiable attitude toward Bonn by suggesting that German-Polish talks on the renunciation of force were "imminent." This week the two nations open new discussions on trade...
Seizing on hatred of the Germans as a popular unifying theme, Poland's postwar Communist government has rarely missed a chance to belabor West Germany as a haven of unrepentant Nazis. Now, in an abrupt switch, Party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations in return for West German acceptance of the Oder-Neisse Line as Germany's legal eastern boundary. The motivation is economic: in search of up to $400 million to modernize their old plants, the Poles hope that a more friendly political atmosphere might bring in much-needed West German...
...reviewing stand stood Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, who in July 1944 as chief of the Communist resistance movement in Poland helped establish the fledgling Soviet-backed regime and later, because of an ideological dispute with Stalin, was jailed for five years. As part of the festivities, Gomulka invited only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent...