ARRIVAL IN BRITAIN
MR MIKOLAJCZYK’S PARTY MEMBERS Rec. 1 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 14. The vice-chairman of Mr Mikolajczyk’s Polish Peasant Party, Mr Kazimir Baginski, reached London by air from the British zone in Germany after fleeing through the Russian zone. Mr Baginski, who is 61, is the sixth of nine people who left Warsaw with Mr Mikolajczyk on October 20 to reach safety. Mr Baginski’s wife and Mr Mikolajczyk’s private secretary, Miss P. Zaleski, arrived with him. Two others have reached Sweden. Mr Baginski said: “My arrest was imminent and execution a matter of a few days. I escaped death to continue my struggle for Poland’s freedom. I am the only one of 15 Polish resistance leaders who went to Moscow in 1945 still free. The others are still serving sentences in Russian prisons.” Mr Mikolajczyk has applied for a United States visa, and will probably leave England next week. A Polish Peasant Party official in London said that Mr Mikolajczyk had not decided whether he would join the International Peasant Union, which the former Hungarian Prime Minister, Mr Terenc Nagy, set up in Washington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 7
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185ARRIVAL IN BRITAIN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 7
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