Word: gomulka
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Pity for Patrice. Unhappily, Gomulka -and Poland with him-seems to be moving the other way. Gone are the soaring hopes that followed Poland's famous October 1956 revolt against the Communist yoke. "October? What's that?" cracks a writer. "Our calendar now has only eleven months." For him, free expression died in 1959, when Gomulka's party men took over the Writers' Union and choked off the "deviationists" with threats and a "shortage" of newsprint...
Today, among party officials, the idea of a "Polish road to socialism" is no longer mentioned, for the chosen road leads mainly to Moscow. In foreign policy decisions, Poland is scarcely more independent than the Ukraine or Byelorussia. Of all the Soviet bloc leaders, Gomulka was first with lavish congratulations for Nikita Khrushchev after he torpedoed the summit conference last year. Last month Warsaw hastened to rename a street and a collective farm after Patrice Lumumba, following Moscow's big propaganda blast in memory of the Congolese "symbol of anti-colonialism." Two "Freedoms." In exchange for this kind...
Bowing to the stubborn peasants, Gomulka still permits 87% of the farmers to remain outside the collectives, though his regime is pushing hard for voluntary membership in agricultural "circles," a modified form of collectivization...
...church has begun to come under increasing pressure from Comrade Gomulka's party activists. Last year, factories suddenly stopped or slowed down deliveries of materials for church buildings, and the army started drafting seminary students a few at a time. Two religious holidays were declared to be official workdays. Then the party threatened to wipe out religious education in the schools, which Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had won from Gomulka after months of struggle four years...
...real test of strength will come in the elections early next month. Four years ago, in exchange for concessions to the church, Cardinal Wyszynski urged Catholics to vote for Gomulka's candidates...