Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-03
Nixon Confers
With Gomu|ka
AsPoIesCheer
Crowd at Rites
At Soldiers Tomb
Chants Long Life
BY JOHN SCALI
Associated Press stan Writer

| WAtGGOA w, aug. .. VICE
President Nixon met for more
than three hours today with
Communist Chief Wladyslaw
Gomulka and Premier Jozef
Cyraniewicz. Crowds continued
to cheer him at every turn.
About 5000 enthusiastic
Poles gathered to watch Mr..
Nixon place a red, white and
blue tinted rose wreath at the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier
in a solemn ceremony honor
ing Poland's war dead. Many
in the crowd cheered him with
cries of Live 100 Years." q
traditional cheer in Poland.
An excited Polish worker,
shouting "Vive America" bolt
ed through police lines and
grabbed Mr.. Nixon in a fierce
bear hug, almost knocking him
down.
Polish security agents pried
Mr.. Nixon loose and pushed
the man roughly aside. Mr..
Nixon was startled momen-
tarily but quickly regained his
compoSure. The Vice Presi-
dents aides said the man
meant no harm and that he
wanted to hoist Mr.. Nixon on
the shoulders of the crowd.
Foreign Minister Present
Foreign Minister Adam
Rapacki. author of a plan for
a European atom-free zone
which the United States has
rejected, sat in on Mr.. Nixon's
meeting with top Polish
leaders.
'Neexon," 'Neexon," cried
many spectators as the Vice
President drove through the
city in a black automobile fly
ing the American flag and the
red and white Polish banner.
Herbert G. Klein, Mr.. Nix
on's press officer, reported that
the calls on Poland's President
Alexander Zawadski at Belve-
dere Palace this morning and
on Parliament Speaker Czeslaw
Wycech were Every friendly in
every respect"
He declined to disclose what
subjects were discussed. Mr.
Nixon's call on Mr.. Gomulka
stretched out through lunch
time. The two men discussed
international problems so in
tently they decided they might
as well continue. Mr.. Gomulka
arranged to have luncheon
served in the Council Of Min
listers Building.
Holds 5-Year-Old Girl
During the ceremony at the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier
one Of Mr.. Nixon's well wishers
handed the Vice President his
five year old daughter to hold.
Mr.. Nixon held the girl in his
arms, turned to the crowd
around him and called out as
they applauded:
1--WE must all work for q
better life for our children"
The crowd was small in
comparison to the quarter of
a million Poles who greeted
Mr.. Nixon on arrival yester-
day. But it outdid even that
great throng in righteousness
and enthusiasm.
During Mr.. Nixon'S protocol
call on President Zawadski, who
had invited him to Poland, MIR.
Nixon delivered a letter of
greeting from President Eisen-
hover.
Mace Is Admired
Speaker Wycech showed Mr..
Nixon the historic 5-foot-long
mace used to preserve order in
the Polish Parliament.
I'VE could use something like
that in our Senate" the Vice
President commented.
The reception yesterday was
the most rousing that Mr..
Nixon had gotten on all his
foreign travels until then. For
nearly is miles ecstatic crowds
cheered the delighted Vice
President and showered him
with flowers after he arrived
by plane from Moscow.
On his arrival Mr.. Nixon was
greeted by Vice President Oscar
Lange, former head of the Po-
lish delegation at the United
Nations, and Deputy Foreign
Minister Josef Winiewicz,
former Polish Ambassador in
Washington. Since Mr.. Nixon
is not a chief Of state, protocol
See NIXON, Page IA