Word: mikolajczyk
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...first man was Colonel Moczar, chief of Security Police of Communist-run Lodz in Poland. He was trying to keep followers of the Polish Peasant Party's Stanislaw Mikolajczyk from voting (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...reporter cannot stay two weeks in the poisoned atmosphere of Warsaw without developing a bias which ... is bound to color his reports, and there is no correspondent in Poland today who hasn't in his heart aligned himself with either the Communist-dominated Government or ... Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant party." Bigart had, for one; he was now firmly antiCommunist. He added: "There is no middle ground, no impartial witness...
...determined, despite Communist pressure, to stay in the Government until the people had a chance to speak at the polls. But last week, his back to the wall, less than a month before the referendum in which Poles would be asked to approve the present regime's policies, Mikolajczyk finally exploded...
...Furthermore, local headquarters were padlocked by Communist-controlled police, and the Government had armed a "reserve militia" of 30,000. Another particular of the indictment: members of Poland's German minority had been supplied with counterfeit Peasant Party membership cards to brand the party as pro-German. Cried Mikolajczyk: "This is nothing but a political fight, which tries to make our work impossible and perhaps wipe us off the face of the earth...
...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...