Word: mikolajczyk
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...After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...Poland, already so recognized, only the feeble Labor Party, headed by Karol Popiel, existed legally outside the coalition Government of Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski. But within the coalition, the new Polish Peasant Party, headed by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who was in the U.S. last week, on his way home from an international food conference), was making notable strides. Mikolajczyk and his followers were not fighting the Communists or the Russians outright, but they were fighting for a free Poland along the line laid down by the late, great Wincenty Witos (see MILESTONES...
...pressure centered mainly about the greying heads of the two Peasant Party Ministers who had joined the new Government of National Unity; Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who had come from London) and Wladyslaw Kiernik. A lot had happened since Mikolajczyk finally heeded the bidding of the U.S. and Britain to join the Warsaw regime. Most significant: the new 21-man Government (16 of them members of the old Moscow-sponsored Lublin regime) had won recognition from the Allies...
...Lublin influence waxed, the Party's waned. Mikolajczyk himself received only the secondary portfolio of Agriculture. Kiernik, his Party colleague, who was to have had the important Ministry of the Interior, got an emasculated Ministry of Public Administration, stripped of police-control powers. The Peasant Party's principal pillar, septuagenarian, independent Wincenty Witos, thrice Premier of Poland, joined the Home National Council but received no Cabinet office...
Last week Witos, Mikolajczyk and Kiernik struck out for themselves, proclaimed the formation of a new Polish People's Party. Their aim: to capture the old Peasant Party before it was captured by the Communists...