'A Different 1956': British Responses to the Polish Events, June-November 1956
Titel:
'A Different 1956': British Responses to the Polish Events, June-November 1956
Auteur:
Deighton, Anne
Verschenen in:
Cold War history
Paginering:
Jaargang 6 (2006) nr. 4 pagina's 455-475
Jaar:
2006-11
Inhoud:
This article examines British policy towards the 'events' of 1956 in Poland that resulted in the return to office of Wladyslaw Gomulka, and Polish hopes for greater autonomy, prosperity and freedom. The British were sceptical if not pessimistic observers of the Polish events. Muscular political comment was never seriously considered in Whitehall as a policy option: strategically, a divided Europe was seen to provide greater security for the West, despite any bid for fundamental political or economic reform in Poland. History is astir again in Eastern Europe. Poles and Hungarians have risen up to challenge the pessimistic view that a modern dictatorial State, controlling all the means of education and propaganda, and backed by police and terror, can shape men like clay and rob them of their inner citadel of thought and spirit. (The Times, 25 October 1956)
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