SECRECY NEEDED; LIVES IN JEOPARDY

Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 7

SECRECY NEEDED; LIVES IN JEOPARDY

(N.Z.P.A. — Reuter

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COXDOX, Xov. 4. ! Tlie Daily Telegraph's diploniatic | corresjnmdeni , vvlio iirst revealed Alr. | A1 ikolajczyk 's escajie from Poland, says 1 j that behind the dctails so far given 8 lies a thrilling and iuspiring story oi | many unknown jieople, working at tiu | risk of tlieir livos. Oniy Alr. Alik'o- I lajczyk and his associates can tell how 1 they escaped, but they must preserve | secre.cv lest the lives of many fine ! people be jeopardised. I Whatcver help Alr. Alikolajezyk may | have liad, inucli must have been douc 1 by the resistance movement, whicli I opposes the jireseiit JRussian-controlleu j Governnient in Poland. 3 The corresfiondent says that ALr. I Alikolajezyk 's plans are not settled. i but he proposcs to eonfer witli other ] iutlueiitial emigre J'oles and to discusa I how best he may serve the cau.se oi • j Poland. It is expected that he will go j , to the Fnited Stales, wliere ;he .witi j . ijoin Alr. Xagy, former Hiingarian j .jprime .Minister, I)r. Dimitrovjifhe Bul ] , j garian Peasant Party Ihadeq 1)T. Alat ! i ! chek, the Uroat Peasant Pahty |leaderf j , Alr. Buzesti, former Rilmauian jforeigu Aliuister, aud I)r. Gavriloviteh, Serbian Agrarian leader, who are ajf vvofkilig | in tlie recently-estabiisheiT Ihterna- j tional Peasants' rnion in Washington. Difficulties in Poland. j Tlie Times says in an editorial timi Mr. AI ikolajczyk 's case commands spec- j uil sympalhy in Britain, where the Polish peasant leader is personally k now n, and higlily respected. Alr M ikolajczyk lias made ati honourable ] attemjit to meet all liis dilliculties in j Poland during the past two years, bu1 j linally has been compelled to seok ] refuge abroad rather thau await sen J tence of death from a military court. j T'nose vyho know him will not believe S he acted disloyally towards his col- ! leagues in the Polish Governnient. His | llight is a i'resh testimonv of the steady j nxiension of the niiddle parties in S Fastern Furope. His reiustatemeut is I iuconcei vable without the reinstate j ment of conditions for Parliamentary ! deiuocracy in Poland as it is under- I stood in tlie vvest. I The Uommunist Daily AVorker, under ! an editorial heading "Another Pole, " I )accuses the British Foreign Offiee ot | assisting Alr. Alikolajezyk 's escape. ] "Alr. Alikolajezyk eomes hero," it J says, "to leail tlie Polish flotsam and I jeisani in Britain, the disreputabie j bnin -h- of riffraflf- — some of whoni fought S for the Gernians — who refuse to gf ] back to tlieir ovvn country. This dis- I credited politician has played all his j cards and has lost." s