POLAND: Gomulka's Lonely Road

POLAND Gomulka's Lonely Road Two toasts offered at a Warsaw reception last week neatly characterized the widening split in world Communism. Said Red China's Premier Chou Enlai: "I propose a toast to the . . . solidarity of the Socialist countries headed by the U.S.S.R." Replied Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka: "I toast the Polish Party's . . . attitude of international proletarian solidarity . . . based on principles of equality and mutual respect."

The wily Chou was plugging the Socialist brotherhood of little brothers subservient to the Big...

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