PROTEST AGAINST CONDUCT OF POLISH ELECTIONS
Keeeived Thursdav, S.50 p.m. LOX.DOX, .) an. 9. Tlie ITiiled States Xote to Poland eoni plaini ng aliont the eonditions niider | wliieli tlie"-' fortheoiiiiiig eleelions are : likely to be lield is being exainuied by jilie Foreign titliee, r.ondoa. Tlie Tiines j diplomatie eorres]>oiiden t says tlie Bri jtisli (ioveriiinent is in full agreeinent J witli the Aineriean Xote's geiieral sen lliinents and its referenees to Wdand's ! internat ionnl obligations to easnre iree j dom of (deetion. Tlie eorrespondent ! ! poi a ts ont two Hritish Xotes on tlie snb | jee t ha\ e already gone to Warsaw, the [ iirsl in Angust and tjie second in i Xoveniber. On both oechsions Kussia ! i, ;is i n torined of tlie Britisli actions. ; Wlieiiierin tiiese eireninstanees it wifl i be eolisidered necessarv to send a third | Hritisii Xol e is not yet clear, bnt there I is iio doubt in London any niore tinui ! in Washington that the pledges given | by Poland at Valta and Potsdam for I holding free eleetions are not being ful "l tilled. ' •
The central eomniittee of Miko laje/.vk's i'easant l'arty after a sixliour nieeting deeided not to boyeott tlie eleetions, reports lienter's Warsau eorrv'spondcnt. Alr. Alikolaje/yk said that 13.3 of his eandidates liad been re jei-ted by the Klectoral ( 'oinmission.and 110 arrested. A Washijigton massage says the I'nited States lias now sent a third Xote to ihilish Provisional, Demoeratie and Anti-Xazi Party eandidates in the elertiun anipaign. The two previous Ameriean Xotes are unanswered. A Pidisli spokesnian aiinouneed that seenrity poliee raided a meeting in Warsaw of tlie eoordinat ing eoinmittee of varions nndergronnd organisatioiw and arrested the partieipants. Tliey in eluded Coloiiel Lipinsky who was "eloseiy eonneeted with tlie Pilsudski dietatorship and who liad a eopy of a letter froni the nndergroutul to .Miko lajr/.vk advising liim to boyeott the eleetions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1947, Page 8
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