Word: mikolajczyk
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...Pennsylvania Avenue), where two prominent Poles reside in two modest flats. One was little-known Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State without Portfolio (but with plenty of jobs), one of the most powerful members of Poland's Communist ruling clique. The other was lantern-jawed, indomitable Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the anti-Communist Polish Peasant Party who, of all Polish public figures today, enjoys perhaps the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy. The two neighbors, though they shared the same Tommy-gun-toting doormen, the same postman and the same erratic central heating, were not on speaking terms...
Berman is a career Communist who was trained in Moscow and, typically, chose Russia for his wartime exile. Mikolajczyk chose Britain...
...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...
...President of Poland's coalition Government, Communist Boleslaw Bierut claims to be "above politics." Last week, reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, the Polish President gave a delegation of opposition leaders from Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party a sample of this lofty impartiality, Communist style. "Change your, line. Change your tactics," he told the group "and there will be no struggle. If you don't go in with the coalition, tears will be your lot and you will be beaten. We will use all means in our power to break...
...view of "serious irregularities" during the recent referendum (including widespread suppression of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party-TIME, July 8), the note declared: "[The U.S.] Government wishes to emphasize its belief that, inter alia, it is essential for the carrying out of free elections that 1) all democratic and anti-Nazi parties be allowed to campaign freely without arrest or threat of arrest . . . 2) all such parties are represented on all electoral commissions, and ballots are counted in the presence of [their] representatives . . . 3) results will be published immediately ... 4) there shall be an adequate system of appealing...