POLAND WILL IGNORE NOTE FROM BRITAIN
Received Fridav, 11.10 p.m. LOXDOX, Jan. 17. The Associated Press' correspondent at Warsaw says it is authoritatively stated that tlie Government will not answer Britain's last Xote protesting against the manner in which the election campaign is being conducted. K F r. klikolajczyk declared that the polling figures for his Peasant Party at tlie general eleetions on Sunday had been "fixed" at 8 per cent., says Reuter's Warsaw correspondent. Mr. Mikolajczyk said: "Three months ago 1 believed my party would be allowed to receive 10 per cent. of the poll, but the allocalion has now been lowered." The Vice President (XI r. Gomulka) said the Peasant Party would be allowed to continue after the eleetions if the national bloc wou but only if its behaviour was "within tlie law." He declared that where the authorities thought the Peasant Party 's connection with the underground Faseists could be proved mass arrests had been made with the result that 135 Peasant Party electoral candidates were now under arrest and tlie (lovernnient had crossed theni of T the electoral lists.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1947, Page 5
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183POLAND WILL IGNORE NOTE FROM BRITAIN Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1947, Page 5
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