PERSECUTED PARTY
ALLEGATIONS BY MIKOLAJCZYK NO HOPE OF FREE POLISH ELECTIONS (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. , - The leader of the Polish Peasant Party, M. Mikolajezvk, stated that five prominent members of his party died as a result of security police and Government supporters beating and torturing them,; says the Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press. The police were beating newsboys and seizing copies of his newspaper, making mass arrests, and confiscating Peasant Party election literature. The authorities have _ imprisoned 135 Peasant Party candidates and struck 250 off the list.
The last hope for free and unfettered elections went when the local electoral commissions demanded watchers at the polls to bear letters of recommendation from county sheriffs whom the Government bloc controlled. '
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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122PERSECUTED PARTY Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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