Evening star., 1948-09-07
President Of Poland
Gets Sweeping Power
In New leftist Union
Socialists to Join With
Communists in United
Workers Party
By the Associated Press

WARSAW, Sept. 7.-PreSident
Boleslaw Beirut was picked today
to take over sweeping political
power as head of new united
Communist Socialist workers
party.
Polish Communists, meanwhile,
carried on their purge intended to
heal party breach which threatens
their control of POLAND. The purge
is aimed at Nationalists in the Com
munist Workers Party who deviate
from the Moscow party line-or in
ternational Communism.
Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and
Oscar Lange, former Ambassador
to Washington and former Polish
chief delegate to the United Ma
tions, headed a delegation calling
on Beirut at his Belvedere Palace.
Top Choice to Head Party.
They told him he was the No. l
man for presiding over the new
Communist-Social Workers party
Beirut long had been the choice OF
his Communists.
Beirut thanked them for the
nomination, which is the same as
election. Since the Communists
and Socialists hold control in the
Warsaw government this would give
him exceptionally broad powers.
Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka,
who lost his job as the partys sec
retary-general Sunday because Of
his nationalist attitude and his sup
port for Premier Marshal Tito OF
Yugoslavia, declared last night the
partys troubles are past the crisis,
Differences Patched Up.
\ He appeared before war council
of party leaders to admit charges
levelled against hin-that he had
pursued "a false and anti-Marxist
line" and had permitted rightist
and nationalist deviations. He said
he had patched up his theological
differences with Poland's Commu-
mist chieftains.
The council was called by Beirut,
who succeeded Gomulka as party
secretary-general, to draw up plans
for ending the party breach. He
offered an eight-point program. Po-
Ilitical circles said Gomulka's recant-
ing would strengthen Bierut's hand
in enforcing this program to halt
the straying of members who prefer
the nationalist brand of commu-
nism to that of the international
Cominform.
Gomulka, although he lost his
important party job, retained his
post as first vice premier in the
Cyrankiewicz government and as
minister for western territories.
Beirut continues as President.
Eight-Point Program.
Bieruts program for fighting the
party's troubles included the follow
ing points:
l. Purify the party by throwing
out all members of questionable 10y
atty or suspected of "rightist and
nationalist deviation"
2. Eliminate capitalism in peasant
villages by establishing co-opera-
tives to handle farm production.
Gomulka also differed with the
party on this point before his pub
lie statement last night.
3. Sharpen party discipline and
screen thoroughly all applicants for
membership.
4. Wage unceasing war against
American imperialism" and the in
filtration of foreign agents into the
party.
S. Campaign to teach Poland's
Is ,o00,000 national-minded peasants
the advantages Of socialization and
Polish ties with the Russian Com
munist Party and the Soviet gov
ernment.
6. Permit the free flow of self
criticism by party leaders to pre-
vent recurrence of past mistakes.
Polish newspapers predicted Bic
rut would succeed in settling the
internal quarrels, but none ven-
/ tured to say how long it would take.