Moscow had raised Poland's bald-domed Wladislaw Gomulka from the Communist underground to a place of power. Last week, through Poland's Communist Party (called the Polish Workers' Party), Moscow slapped him down. The reason: Gomulka, like Yugoslavia's Tito, had become a dangerous "nationalist."
In Warsaw the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party roasted Gomulka, Vice Premier and the party's secretary general, over a Moscow-kindled ideological fire. In party jargon, Gomulka was charged with four cardinal sins: 1) he lacked "understanding of the . . . leading role of the Russian Communist Party in...
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