A file containing a report produced by Sir Eric Berthoud, the British ambassador to Poland, on developments within Poland during 1957. The report discusses how, whilst 1957 "did not match 1956 in dramatic intensity", it was "an uneasy and testing year with tension never far below the surface". The report also covers internal developments within the Polish United Workers' Party; the process of political and social liberalisation introduced by Władysław Gomułka, the Polish leader, in the aftermath of the Polish October; and two plenums of the Polish United Workers' Party, during which Gomułka branded the advocates of the former regime as "sectarians and dogmatists, and an obstacle to the development of the essential confidence between Party and People". Other sections of the report comment on relations between church and state in Poland; relations between Poland and the West; and economic and agricultural developments in Poland during 1957.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- China Soviet Union United Kingdom
- Department Reference
- Code NP file 1011
- Document Type
- Correspondence Reports
- File Reference
- FO 371/135061
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.135061
- Pages
- 26
- Persons Discussed
- Eric Berthoud Władysław Gomułka
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Poland
- Themes
- Domestic Politics Industry and Agriculture International Relations
