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These include "The Soviet Union Today," with Merle Fainsod, professor of Government; Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology; Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government. The second, "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner," will be given by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...Fear of the external danger of Soviet Russia is all that supports Gomulka's government," Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, charged last night in an informal discussion in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...Brzezinski felt that "Poland can no longer be called a totalitarian state." It no longer has the single, monolithic Communist party, he stated, for at the top it is split into factions, and the lower echelons are in dedacy. Since October the power of the police has been neutralized, he noted, and there is now much greater freedom of speech...
...Brzezinski compared Gomulka's government to a traditional dictatorship, with arbitrary limitation, but not elimination of personal freedom. This dictatorship is held up by popular fear of Russian intervention...
...situation is basically unstable, Brzezinski stated, for as the external threat fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...