FOREIGN AID IN PLOT TO MURDER POLISH CABINET ALLEGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 5

FOREIGN AID IN PLOT TO MURDER POLISH CABINET ALLEGED

(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—Copyright.) (11 a.m.) WARSAW, Feb. 10. The plot to kill the President and members of the Polish Cabinet, which had been uncovered, was financed with dollars and pounds and directed by centres abroad, the' Minister of Security, Mr. Stanislaw Radkiewicz, told Parliament today.

He said: “We have proofs which will be disclosed in due course that this group was helped by foreign centres.”

Reuter recalls the official disclosures on February 5 that a plot against the Government was "stamped out” by mass arrests among former members of .the Polish Home Army. Mr. Radkiewicz told Parliament that his forces —unofficially estimated at 300.000 —were strong enough to “deal with a handful of traitors who had greater loyalty to Anglo-imperialism than their own country.” He added that the former underground army leader, General Jan Mazukiewicz, better known to underground workers by Seudonym Radolslaw, was leader of a small group which planned a personal attack on the President. Mr. Boleslaw Beirut. Mr. Radkiewicz said no one would be allowed to disturb the work of reconstructing Poland, least of all the fictitious Parliament formed by a handful of emigre politicians.” Reuter’s correspondent says that reports reaching Warsaw in the past fortnight indicate the security police have been unusually active in the countryside, stemming the mounting wave of unrest following the abolition of rationing on January 1.