Word: mikolajczyk
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This oath was being taken by thousands of fanatical Polish Girl Scouts in D.P. camps outside Poland last week. Inside Poland, the Communist-dominated Government's campaign against Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party rose to new heights of terror...
...Mikolajczyk's] demands for an election on July 28 were ignored. The government, which has no appetite for a balloting unless the election is rigged in its favor by means of a single ticket in which the Polish Peasant Party would have less than 20% of the candidates, speaks vaguely of holding an election in the fall...
...Poland] is not quite a dictatorship, although the Council scene bore an ominous resemblance to totalitarian parliaments. Mikolajczyk, who would win an overwhelming victory in any free election held in Poland today, and who claims to have the backing of at least 75% of the Polish people in his demand for an early free election, was completely and impotently alone with his handful of delegates...
...Communists, Socialists and the government-sponsored 'Peasant Party' joined in a vote of confidence for the coalition government which included censure of Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party for 'obstructing national unity.' . . . Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski joined the attack. 'We must eliminate elements,' he cried, 'which are trying to conceal illegal reactionary underground activity by taking part in the government of the country...
...Political feelings have reached such a pitch of bitterness that the resignation of Mikolajczyk now might easily plunge Poland into a civil war far bloodier than the current fighting with underground Fascists. Knowing this, Mikolajczyk is determined to stay...