Purge Of Public Life In Poland

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 9

Purge Of Public Life In Poland

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)

WARSAW, April 17.

Two dismissals, two resignations and a new appointment were reported today as the purge of Polish public life continued, bringing the known number of prominent victims to nearly 60.

I The Government has nominated Mr Jerzy Smyczynski, a 44-year-old engineer, to be its representative in charge of the dispersal of industry in Warsaw, to succeed Mr Fryderyk Topolski, who was dismissed a month ago after his son, Kazimierz, has been named as one of the ringleaders of the student demonstrations in Warsaw. Mr Smyczynski. a former manager of hydro-electric and thermal power stations, was a secretary of Warsaw’s provincial Communist Party committee before his new appointment. The Ministry of Culture has dismissed Mr Aleksander Postolow from his post as director of a publishing house in Lodz, in Central Poland, and replaced him by a local author, Mr Wieslaw Jazdynski. The trade union newspaper. “Glos Pracy," has revealed that Mr Seweryn Stryjer has lost his job as deputy director of the tourist department of a Government committee for sport and tourism. It blamed him, along with two other sports officials whose

dismissals were announced earlier and a Ministry of Education official, for deficiencies in developing sport in schools.

The newspaper accuses al) four of “bureaucratic activities” and of sometimes using their positions for their personal profit Newspapers also report the resignations of Professor Kazimierz Laski, as chairman of the Polish Economic Society’s Warsaw branch, and of Mr Leon Szechter from his post as chairman of the Polish - Soviet Friendship Society in the Baltic port of Szcecin.

It is reported that Warsaw University is scrutinising the records of about 1300 students before allowing them to return to their classrooms to resume their studies in classes dissolved last month in reprisal, for an illegal students’ meeting. The students have asked to be re-admitted, and their cases are being studied.