SPECULATION OF POSSIBLE NEW PURGES, WITHDRAWAL OF POLISH COMMUNIST LEADERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 23, 1952
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INFORMATION FROM
UWY Poland -)taspora DATE CF
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'MELT Political - Party purges, biographic
`HOW Wcekiy, tbr1co-weokly_, daily newspapers DATE DIST? yS Aug 1952.
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PUBLISHED 28 Apr - 18 Jun 1952
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in Poland.~The monthly periodical Trybuna, (organ of the London D i D LHiepodleglosc
I De oletac s, Independence and Democracy party) has expressed the following
'hire is no doubt that the Comeu='stF v.01 break the 194.7 record of falsify-
ingolactions and will attain the planned goal of 99.9 percent of the total
vote. Thapoles know this and have,Wected to the. propaganda trick with con-
plot. indifference. For many Cummun ts, however, the start of the constitutional
ord ro fg" Moscow, the party is to be.purged from top to bottom of the dead-
wood headed down from the Lublin period.
Ds uc tic party and the peasant Party for the las* 6-'yaors: Very little' has
bean h ird.of these followers lately. Chant, the general secretary of the
Ddioa mtic party, and Josef Niecko, chairman of the YExcautive Council of the
glpstpacifiere, are seldom mentioned. With their vote for the new con
-,~.e.ww..~.*, a.uzisuc weir final Yvses aiw? ran ou raesiisii
;ti+dC t-ee public eye. -
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A aw =mi=: hear bcca ngcd .- a long time or, this ?w.4tei' behind
the Scenes of the Warsaw Politburo. For for long timeAleksander Zavadzki, an
RKPD colonel, who, like Marshal Rokossovskiy, enjtys toe full confidence of
*scow, has been the eco,41d&te for premier. But the leader of the party,
Boleslaw Bierut, does not like strongly individuulioiic people around him.
Biaxut will not easily give us Cyrankievicz, since the latter is a willing tool.
Z"-edzki, howe zr, with the backing of the omnipresent N1ND, can probably get
the Cyrankiewicr poe' despite Bierut.
Whatever the outcome, the imposition of a Soviet Constitution upon Poland
marks the formal end of one period and the _.tart of another. An open and in-
tensive. economic battle and a complete political purge are now starting in Po-
land. The ominous German problem foreshadows danger not only for the West but
also for the ?rative" Communists. A strong hand is needed for this affair.
The fee.. that the Polish Constitution, like all Satellite constitut+
makes no detailed definition of state boundaries opens all kinds of pocalbili-
ties for political manipulations in the future.
SPECULATE 0M POSSIBLE CFC GES IN WARSAW REGIME -- Monnhoim, Catntnic ladoaoeci,
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Warsaw -- Recently, officials who to the first postwar years played small
roles have been stepping out as spokesmen of the government and the PZPR (Polska
Zjednocrona Partja Robotnicza, United Polish Workers Party).
Baleslaw Bierut alone, of the leading party personalities, has retaiued
his position. The party press gave extensive coverage to his 60th birthuay.
From among his closest collaborators have disappeared not only such people
as the Gomulka group, who were eliminated as "?Titoists" and "nationalists," but
also those faithful to the party line and long-standing members of the Polit-
buro Such as Jakub Berman, Hilar,/ Mine, and Roman Zrmbrowski, of whom less and
less is heard.
Another interpretation is that the present unfavorable economic situation
in Boland, especially in regard to food, tends to make the economic politicians
vitbdraw from the spotlight until better results are achie?.--.:.
BO43i CBANM U WAID -- Tel Aviv, ironika Tygadniovs, 18 Jun 52
A friend who had dust returned from Poland and who had never taken an in-
terost:in politics told me that none of his former acquaintances would speak
to him. The police visited him often.
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The country avtai.t,% important event,o. there is much talk of a great purge
which will affect the great AA th.. sme 1,
The food situation has become much worer,, and scapegoats are being aoucht,
including King andRa elan. Formerly, it w..e said that Berman was the only
Polish Communist who could join the Ki Lin at any time. Today, Berman cannot
talk in person even with Rokossovokiy.
A purge is being carried out in the a mY also. The remaining Polish career
officora are disappearing and are being replaced by a new generation faithful
to the party. High-ranking officers are either Poles educated in the USSR or
Russians.
There seems to be opposition in the Peoples Democracies In the form of
national Communism, on the order of Titoism. As long as there is peace, the
opposition is of no danger to the regime. but with the nuthrwnk n? w,. a+. . n9a
be a menace. This anti-Communist front in Eastern Europe threatens the USSR
more then the Communist front threatens the rear of the West.
YAZR DIPLOMATIC CR&N -- T21 Aviv, Kronika Tygodniowa, 18 Jun 52
Consul Tee, who for 2 yearn has carried out the functions of Polish consul-
ggneral In Tel Aviv, is returning to Warsaw to an important position. Tee, who
was in Palestine long before the Israeli insurrection, belonged to the Zwiezek
Patriotaw Polskich (Union of Polish Patriots) vb ch opposed the London Polish
government and General Anders. PerhAps he will have more luck in using his
knowledge of Hebrev than his predecessor, Loc, of whom there has been no news
for-the last 6 months.
The question now is whether Poland sill finally establish an embresy in
Israel or, as at present, will be satisfied with a consulate. Israel has
maintained an embassy in Warsaw for 4 years, while Poland stops at a consulate.
'.Phis is contrary to international custom and should be remedied. All that is
known now is that"the next Polish representative in Israel will not be a Jew.
SMa RaWR POLISH OFPICIALD BEING SHOVED INTO BACRGROUHD -- Stockholm, Svenska
Degbladet, 28 Apr 52
Vienna. 1 Anril -- When Boleslav Blerut. Polish Prea1A_ent and Mw--4n+
leader, recently celebrated his 60th birthday, the party's congratulations were
extended by a party functionary who was little known a few year ago, a former
aetalworke- from Krvkov named Edward Ochab. Since Ochab's entry into a Polit-
buro, alter the fall of former Secretary-General Gomuika, he has always been
the one to deliver speeches on "ideological" clarifications of the party pro-
gram.
In former years of the awkward situation of Polish agriculture, which recently
neCassiteted tighter controls in food rationing, but rather the speeches are
given by the peasant agitator, Hilary Chelchowski, who has been advanced to
Party Secretary and Politburo memner Roman Zambrowski no longer speaks as
+.nd Uaaulka!s chosen successor in the cabinet, mine leader Zavadzki, is s.riously
ill. The purpose behind the economic plan for the year-was stated before the
Parliament not by the leading national economist of the government and the Polit-
Jakub Berman, who previously served alone as the Politburos theoretician,
has been stepping more and more Into the background during the past few year,
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aiak t)a 6 o~ the wart sy O" servers in Wareav point out the fact that the
=or.t msple, .raie; alennky affair." It is presriaed by Western Europeans that
i ;@olossso'rski; is the. cue who introduced this policy in Warssa, but the
saleetion of certain of his closest associates contradicts this aaaumption.
othex:iitterpretations are based on the premise that men such as Mine in the rre-
faapwiW. or:science, iiterature, theater. etc., to the Russian model be carried
out-by men-with: genuinely Polish names. -? I.B.
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