EMBASSY TRANSLATOR
ARREST BY POLISH SECRET POLICE
GOVERNMENT IGNORES BRITISH NOTE
(Rev. 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 27. Major C. P. May he Under-Secre-tary to the Foreign Office, said in the House of Commons that the British Embassy at Warsaw had received no reply yet to the Note addressed to the Polish authorities or to the subsequent oral representations by the Ambassador about the arrest of the Embassy’s translator, Marie Malinowska. , ■ Professor Savory, who described Malinowskv as having been carried off by secret police in the middle of the night, asked if the British Government did not protect its employees in the Embassy. Major Mayhew replied: We sent an urgent Note, we made oral representations. and we expressed the hope that possibly this woman might be released under an amnesty.” Further questioned about the sentence of eight years’ imprisonment passed on a Polish interpreter to the correspondent of the ‘ Sunday Times, London, Major Mayhew said that, as the man was a Polish citizen it was not for his department 'to express an opinion on the Polish court's decision.
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Evening Star, Issue 26038, 28 February 1947, Page 7
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177EMBASSY TRANSLATOR Evening Star, Issue 26038, 28 February 1947, Page 7
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