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1724 (10, tive, fences,” ob- served Warsaw's Swiat, “testify to the re- turti of the peasants’ sense of ownership.” Relatfons with the Catholic Church are far better than in other Soviet-bloc coun- tries, though the Vatican’ reports that “government interference’ with religious appointments tends to become more rig- * orous than last year.” No Exhilaration, Unable to govern ef- , fectively through the party and unwilling to govern any other way, Gomulka has ficii failed to inspire the self-sdcrificing energy xpected in October's exhilarated hour, in * Polish factories, bsenteeism has doubled; :” ‘the’ pifliamentary con-. | : the; October, rising, may give some evidencé'of the growing ‘conviction, that Gomulkd is no longer ing op manfully, doing his best for "Why. should I bother to vote?” ffice worker last week. “Last time F voted because I, believed 4, Gomulka was going to he] fp us. Since then the price of bread’ has“gone up, butter has gone up, meat has gone up, everything ‘costs more, What difference will these elections make? None.” Between his own failures and the inex- orable pressures of East and West, Gomul- -ka still fought to preserve the appearances Of his desperate middle course between + Communism and the patriotism of his ‘tired and impatient countrymen. RUSSIA - At Home with the Frazers ee a weet Productivity at Warsaw’s Zeran Autonio- ° bile Works is down to one twenty-seventh of the prevailing rate at U.S, Ford plants. To survive, most workers liave to take second jobs, many of them in the innu- erable | hole-in-the-wall ‘private enter- prises that have sprung, up, and their employment at these second jobs often’ ’ depends on how" much ‘they’ ‘can steal from their state factory to Provide mw materials for the business. jody thinks ‘that. the $100 iniports tra, they are now seeking in ‘Washington | will «Erich Lessing—Magaum Wrapystaw Gomutka In the middle of chaos. TIME, FEBRUARY 3, 1958 : family »“ports its wardrobe ia London. M: ; ‘assla ildren, Fer- da, 6, have paper, gus, 13, Donald, i schools and aré as‘fluent in Russian ‘as in English. This was the surface impression of the Frazers gathered last week by a visitor to their home. But Mark Frazer had another “name, and - another Sonat Ma Almost_seven , hotoriously homose al ‘crony, Guy Burgess, also a Foreign “on the very day” British Us ion q « Spy or nien Twenty-séven. Mi 's U.S.-born wife and three chi dfen Toft Switetand and i _Kuibyshev, @ town on hE Noles Where he ‘was teaching English, They found Kuiby-” shev dreary and provincial, and both wele., comed the shani¢, to_Frazer. ecause of his fear of thé pres he is reported to hayt, broken completely with Guy Burgess ever since Burgess gave an extended interview in Moscow last Oc- tober to Tom Driberg, the British news- © man ‘and ex-Labor M.P. Both Burgess , and Maclean share a continuing problem: alcoholism. Last summer, when Maclean went on an extended drinking” bout that ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed him back to health, but told friends she was fed up and was considering leaving *“Ruociated Press THe Macteans (7949) In the bottle or Moscow, him. Since then, Maclean has been on the wagon, and both he and his wife deny any * rumors of separation. . Mark Frazer, wearing the clothes and upper-class manner of his Cambridge = background, goes to his office, does bis "work, comes, home. If asked, he insists * that he is unwavering in his support of the - Soviet system, and that he would rather . «in Moscow than anywhere else in the "world, It is either that or the bottle. ° GREAT BRITAIN "The Simple Truth" * ‘ “Mr, Thorneycroft,” gruffed the deeply .. Scottish aécent of the Speaker, and si- lence. descended on the House of. Com- mons, From the third bench below the.” gangway on the government side, tradi- tionally the place taken by a ‘retiring minister, rose the tall man whose resigna- _ tion as Chancellor of the Exchequer 2} weeks before had precipitated the debate. Without rhetoric, flourish or grandiose phrase, Peter Thorneycroft explained the realities behind his refusal to increase _ government spending this year by “less “ than 19%.” In doing so, he cut through © years of “polemics and political obfusca- ** tions to state the wider reality of Britain's ;hew position in the world, - “For: twelvé years,” he said, “we have ~ been attempting to doemore than our, re- sources could manage, and in the process we have been gravely weakening our- "selves. We have, in a sense, been trying to do two things at the same time. First, we “have sought to be a nuclear power, match- ing missile with missile and anti-missile tional forces in the Far East, the Middle