Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-07
Polish Reds Hail U. S.
On Surplus Sale Offer

WARSAW, Jan. Z tP.-Po-
lands Communist Party organ
says the United States decision
to sell this country surplus farm
products at world prices means
without doubt that some prog
ress has been made toward the
corporation of our countries"
The previous policy required
Communist countries to pay the
niger prices prevailing in the
United States. The United States
still is considering whether to
allow Poland to buy surplus
commodities in its own currency,
as some Western allies and I'M
committed nations now are per-
mitted to do
United States Ambassador
Joseph Jacobs and Polish Vice
Foreign Minister jerry Winiewicz
have been negotiating about
economic aid on the basis of
President EiSenhower's October
d e claration that the United
States was ready to help a more
Poland. The offer
to sell surplus goods at world
prices is the first concrete result.
Trybuna Ludu. organ of the
ruling United Workers Com
munist) Party, hailed the change
although noting that no decision
has been mace on possible United
States credits to Poland ito en-
able her to buy these products :"
Wheat Needed
Poland needs wheat despite a
recent Soviet credit of 100000
tons of grain. The government
hopes to build reserves so it can
stop taking compulsory deliveries
from peasants. Poland also
needs hard currency credits for
raw materials for her industry.
which has suffered from a Short
age of coal.
Radio Warsaw said the talks
with the United States now have
reached concrete stage" and
that they "can be regarded as
only the first step toward the
naturalization of economic rela-
tons between our countries.
The government radio quoted
an editorial in Zycie Warszawy. a
newspaper which speaks for the
regime, as saying that any one
counting on American aid lead
ing to a deterioration of rela-
tons with the Soviet Union was
badly mistaken"
In Moscow, however, there
were raised eyebrows at Polands
absence from last weeks Buda-
pest meeting of Soviet and satel-
lite leaders. Some Westerners
thought the fact Poland did not
attend indicated the country is
no longer among those counted
on for the defense OF world COM
muniSm.
Hungary. BULGARIA., Romania
and Czechosloyakla sent repre-
Sentatives to the meeting with
Soviet Communist Party boss
Nikita Khrushchev. Whether Po-
land was invited and refused
was not disclosed.
Many Poles are taking full ad-
vantage of their new freedom of
speech in the debate now going
on about the merits of candi-
dates for the January 25 cleo
lions for a new Polish parlia-
ment. Although all the candi-
dates were picked by the Com
munist dominated Unite d
Front there is a choice of cam
didates for the first time since
the Communists took over.
Meeting Televised
A meeting to permit WarShaW
voters to question candidates
was televlsed last night. One
questioner. an old man, de-
clared:
Il am not a Communist. l am
not a socialist. l am just
democrat. How are these cleo
tons democratic when all the
candidates have to be socialist"
E ward Osubka -Morawski,
former democratic socialist pre-
mier who is expected to take
a high government post after
the elections. replied that "Po-