The leadership of Communist Poland is gripped by a Byzantine intrigue in which hardly anything is really what it seems to be. The regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which appeared at first to be threatened mainly by the unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by an inner group that has used that unrest for its own ambitious purposes. Harder-lining than Gomulka, the men who make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries...
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