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Last week Poles were laughing at such a story told on Wladyslaw Gomulka. Poland's Communist Vice Premier arrived in Katowice, capital of Upper Silesia, to make a speech. He ordered General Alexander Zawadzki, governor of the conquered area, to round up 50,000 people for the meeting. As the day wore on, Gomulka's demands got bigger. He demanded 100,000 people to listen to him, then 150,000, then 200,000. The population of Katowice is only 150,000. But a crowd of 200,000 turned out for the speech...
...Mistreatment" & Cordiality. As expected, Cyrankiewicz's Cabinet marked a leftward swing. Mikolajczyk was out as Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture; also out were two of Mikolajczyk's partymen. In his place was Russian-trained Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Com munist Party's secretary. Undisturbed in his sub-Cabinet post of Under Secretary of State, but stronger than ever behind the scenes, was Moscow-trained Jakub Berman, Poland's real boss...
...State Without Portfolio and Secretary of the Cabinet, who has the last word on foreign affairs; Hilary Minc, Minister of Industry; Colonel Roman Zambrowski, vice director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the six-man Presidium of the National Council; and Wladislaw Gomulka, Secretary General of the Polish Communist Party...
...speech last week, Miko added a postscript to the message: "There are those who ask what we, the unarmed, can do, although there are millions of us, when brutal force attacks us. I told [Communist Vice Premier Wladyslaw] Gomulka: 'You cannot shoot...
Meanwhile, Gomulka & Co. have issued a handy decree setting up courts-martial (no appeal, sentences executed in 24 hours, penalties from one year in prison to death) for all crimes against public security, public order or the economic interests of the state...