Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face value without realizing that this group unilaterally has assumed existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy areas within the structure of the Council, it is because the whole system has never been subjected to the test of open inspection and referendum. And until it has, the Council exists in a vacuum, operating as a debate society which has drawn up a pretty set of laws which bind no one beyond the narrow confines of its own membership...
John Scott, head of TIME'S Berlin Bureau, was arrested in Poland on his way to cover the recent referendum. Last week he cabled this account of some interesting hours spent with the Bezpieczenstwo, the secret police which is supposed to be Polish but appears to contain some citizens of another country...
...must insist that you arrest me, and then after seeing the American consul, I will perhaps answer such questions, not now. Furthermore, if I am detained long, it might look to some as though the authorities in Poznan were afraid to allow foreign correspondents to watch the referendum...
...referendum was more peaceful than many observers had predicted. The people went calmly to the polls-under the eyes of Polish Army troops who guarded balloting places with bayonets fixed. It was typical that the Army's own ballots were not secret but bore each soldier's serial number...
...Mikolajczyk, undeterred by the dim prospect for an honest polling of the people's will, stuck to his guns. Said he: "If the referendum is honest we will have a definite no majority." But in any case, he added, the "people will know who really won, and so will the Government...