The Communists' chief weapon against the Catholic Church in Poland seemed broken last week. The weapon: PAX, an organization of fellow-traveling Catholic laymen. Faced with Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka's anti-Stalinist regime, and with a new agreement for cooperation between church and state (TIME, Dec. 17), PAX was frantically holding meetings, breaking itself up into splinter groups with new names, trying to get its members into other organizations. Explained Radio Warsaw: "PAX, disguising itself, would like to regain the confidence of the community." That confidence had never really existed.
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