68. Editorial Note
In Intelligence Report No. 7989, dated April 2, “The Polish Party Congress,” prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the actions and significance of the Third Polish United Workers’ Party Congress held March 10–19 in Warsaw were summarized as follows:
“The Third Polish Party Congress (March 10–19) was a dignified, and dull affair. It was also a great success. It demonstrated that [Page 178] Gomulka is at last in full control of the Party and it reaffirmed Gomulka’s pragmatic, gradualist, national communist policies as the only possible and correct course under Polish conditions. It elected a Central Committee on which the Stalinists have only a token representation and Gomulka supporters predominate. It confirmed the impression that relations with the USSR continue to be delicate, but that because the Polish regime gives unqualified support to Soviet foreign policy and is careful to subscribe to Soviet doctrine, the Soviet Union remains willing to tolerate Polish deviations in practice and to support the Gomulka regime for the sake of internal Polish stability.” (National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, OSS–INR Reports)