POLISH INTELLECTUALS
"Poem for Adults," which became famous in October
1956, one of Poland's leading poets, Antoni Sionimski.
It
seems regrettable, at a time when the prospects
of peaceful coexistence between East and West have ap–
peared to be improving, that the Polish Government
should have chosen to act in this manner. The events of
October 1956 raised great hopes, in this c'ountry and else–
where, of far-reaching liberalization in the cultural and
intellectual field, and the high quality of recent Polish
achievements in film, theater, and literature has attracted
our admiration.
Is it too much to hope that the Polish Government
may now see its way not only to lift the present ban but
to grant the surely moderate demands ref the Polish intel–
lectuals for an increased measure of freedom of expres–
sion in the Poland of 19641"
Steven Marcus
Arthur Miller
Robert Motherwell
William Phillips
Norman Podhoretz
Richard Poirier
David Reisman
Harold Rosenberg
Meyer Schapiro
Richard Schlatter
Susan Sontag
William Styron
Diana Trilling
Lionel Trilling
Gore Vidal
Robert Penn Warren
