Item COLD WAR 27/59 - Transcript of interview with journalist Flora Lewis, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Flora Lewis, journalist and Poland Correspondent, New York Times, 1946-[1963], relating to the atmosphere and conditions in postwar Poland, 1946; the industrial unrest and rioting in Poznan, Poland, Jun 1956; the impact in Poland of the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the character of Edward Ochab, leader of the Polish Communist Party and Polish Head of State, 1964-1968, and Wladyslaw Gomulka, Party Secretary, Oct 1956-1970; the mobilisation of the Red Army to advance on Warsaw, Poland, Oct 1956; the reaction in Poland to the Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; the Suez Crisis, 1956; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Germany, Aug 1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the death of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 12 Apr 1945; the foundation of the United Nations Organisation, San Francisco, USA, Jun 1945; the importance of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949; the Berlin Crisis, Germany, 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 52pp