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...Catholic writer collected seven abstentions and a former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just don't like him." Nothing like it had happened in Poland in a long time...
Private Worm. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born 100 years ago in eastern Poland, which then, as now, was under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over...
After the signing, toasts were cordial. Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz toasted "dear Comrade Shepilov" and "dear Comrade Zhukov." Shepilov saluted "friendly and fraternal Poland," hailed the agreement as "a striking example of a new type of international relations established among socialist countries...
...newlyweds is a proposed "build-it-yourself" development project, called romantically "Quarters for Lovers Without an Apartment." Complaining that government ministers get all the good houses, the newspaper Zycie Warszawy recently described 16,000 families quartered in unheated barracks at Jozefow, gave special mention to the case of Jozef Grajka, who lives with his family of five in an outside toilet...
...stirred up by the Americans was not repeated in Poznan, where the people knew better.) There were signs of a conflict between Party Secretary Edward Ochab (once described by Stalin as "a Communist with some teeth in him"), who was said to be for reprisals, and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, a turncoat Socialist and ex-inmate of Nazi concentration camps (four years in World War II), who was for continuing to ease conditions. Neither apparently disagreed with the notion of making an example of strike leaders: it was the presumably more lenient Cyrankiewicz who talked of chopping off any hands raised...