PREDICTION OF POLISH POLITICAL CHANGES BY EMIGRE NEWSPAPER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 565
• Publication Date: December 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Poland
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Political - Government changes INFORMATION 1952
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PREDICTION OF POLISH POLITICAL BY E1II(;RE NEJSPAp~t
JEDRYCHOWSKI CONTINUES TD ECLIPSE MINC -- London, Dziennik Polaki, 8 Sep 52
Deputy Premier Stefan Jedrychowski, the de facto director of the regime
economy, had an occasion to boast on the development of Poland,s war. industry
at the A11-Poland Conference of the National Front while Minc again was not
permitted to speak on such an important occasion.
Plaa Re also predicted that the newly-elected sejm will Pass a new Five-Year
gin at the end of the present Six-Year Plan.
OCTOBER ELECTIONS WILL END CAREER
12 Sep 52 cnwflawicz -- London, Dziennik Polski,
Warsaw is convinced that the one certain result of the October elections
will be the deposition of Premier Cyrankiewicz. A wave of purges {e also fore-
cast in the Communist Party after elections.
A new government will arise in November as a result of the elections.
CYrankiewicz will have served a total of 5 years and 9 months as premier. More
than once during this period he appeared to be threatened with dismissal. He
was retained, but the composition of his cabinet was fundamea
There are twwo o rivals for his ~~ c~BedN
Ochab. re ar le rhn a position -- Aleksander Zawadzki and Edward
year ago Zawadzki was considered certain to attain it.
It is believed that in the last few months Ochab has pushed ahead. Both are
old, prewar Communists, both have spent time in the USSR, and both have served
as political commissars.
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During the war, Zawadzki served J. the Red Army and then was a member of
Patriots and commissar
the Presidium of the Union of Polish a political officer fora
BerlinB's '' From this position he was promoted to De y '9 commission
Political Indoctrination in the First Army. He received his general
in May 1944 from the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR with Stalin's
signature. ears,
he was wojewoda (governor) the of Slas Centrka -Dab of Trade Unions.
After the war ' o
He f the Politburo-
twice a deputy premier, and the chairman of l
attended meetings of the Cominform as a representative
Ochab also attained the rank of general in the army. He was a political Third
te Chief of Defense
in Berling's army with the title of Assistant
commissar Division. In April 1949, he became First Deputy s main political
and in January 1950 Rokossovskiy appointed him chief of the arm Administration during
officear. As a civiliea Ochab became the Minister of Public of
For a time he was the president of the
nd later the chairman the Central Commission
the early phase of the new regime. Central Cooperative Union and
Society
Trade Unions. He is the president of the Main Admministration of the
for Polish-Soviet Friendship.
been ste-riling out as the Politburo spokesman and
For some time now he has
specialist in scientific and cultu'"al affairs. In December 1951, he laid down
the political line to historians He gave similar directives in 1952 at the
s y i various
meeting of philosophers and later of librarians. He also often spoke
expositions and rallies. This appears to indicate that for leas ding role-
purposely being cultivated and that he is being pr pa'
ewicz, the regime's system will not
Po matter who takes over after Cyrwnki
change and the tempo of sovietization will be accelerated even more.
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