Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the country, loudspeaker vans boomed out a monotonous tattoo: "Tak, tak, tak!" (Yes, yes, yes!) It was Communism's voice urging the Polish people to vote yes on all three questions of the national referendum and thus to uphold Poland's Communist-dominated regime...
...over the country, throttled but still clear and firm shouts of "Nie!" (No!) rang out in answer. It was the voice of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party, which had chosen the first question on the referendum ("Do you favor abolition of the Senate?"*) for a test of strength. As in France, the Reds wanted a legislature with only one house. Thus it had become a matter of saying yes or no to Communism, and the Communists had no intention of permitting Poland...
...Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested by the Government's "security" police, and that almost everywhere in Poland the Polish Peasant Party was deprived of the right to campaign. Mikolajczyk had a long bill of particulars. Samples...
...total of 909 out of a summer population of 1,450 eligibles voted in the Friday referendum...
Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Student Council president, said yesterday in a letter announcing the results of the referendum that "substitutions were not included on the ballots for fear of further complicating the choice, but the Food Committee feels that the vote was to go without the amount of food and that substitutions would violate the spirit of this decisions...