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...Difference. Last week, Berman and his fellow Communists, who knew that Mikolajczyk would win any fair election, were efficiently making sure that the Jan. 19 election would not be fair. Not a single member of Miko's Peasant Party was named to any of the 52 district committees which will supervise the voting. The Peasant Party's newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa, was crippled by constant arrests among its staff members (among the first to go was its chief crime reporter...
...Government of which he is still a member suppressed Mikolajczyk's speech in Poland, but foreign reporters sent it out. Last month Miko (as U.S. newsmen call him) gave a U.S. traveler a message for his wife and son in Britain: "You may let them know that I do not have much hope of seeing them again. I do not know what can happen to me. I may be killed. I may be deported...
...speech last week, Miko added a postscript to the message: "There are those who ask what we, the unarmed, can do, although there are millions of us, when brutal force attacks us. I told [Communist Vice Premier Wladyslaw] Gomulka: 'You cannot shoot...
Last week, when Mikolajczyk was asked to define "Polish rights," he answered: "A strong, free and independent Poland, with free, happy citizens." Joseph Stalin himself has declared that Russia wants a strong and independent Poland, and that Russia would welcome a Soviet-Polish alliance against the Germans. Says Miko lajczyk: "I want a strong and friendly Russia for the same reason." But the only signs of compromise had come from the Poles. Moscow held rigidly as ever to its demands, underscoring them again this week with the declaration that the "Curzon Line" (see map), well inside pre-1939 Poland, must...