Polish Peasant Leader Gives Lie to Accuser and is Summoned

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1947, Page 5

Polish Peasant Leader Gives Lie to Accuser and is Summoned

(Rec. 6.30) LONDON, June 28. The Times correspondent at Warsaw says: M. Mikolajczyk, the Leader of the Polish Peasant Party, which opposes the present Polish Government, has been summoned to appear before a Speaker’s tribunal of Parliament. This is the result of exchanges between him and General Paszkiewicz, who was the war-time Commander of Polish troops in Scotland, and who now is Warsaw's Military Governor. General Paszwiewicz took exception to a statement made by M. Mikolajczyk in refuting ' charges which General Paszkiewicz made against him. General Paszkiewicz applied to the Speaker for a “court of honour.”

The conflict arose over General Paszkiewicz making an allegation in Parliament on Tuesday last that the death of the former Polish Prime Minister, and Commander-in-Chief, General Sikorski, which occurred during the war in an air crash, at Gibraltar, was no accident, and that General Anders (later Commander of the Polish Army) was involved in a plan for “removing” General Sikorski. General Paszkiewicz' also accused M. Mikolajczyk of collaboration with Polish-Ukrainian terrorist gangs.

M. Mikolajczyk denied these charges. He asked that they should publicly be withdrawn, as otherwise, he would regard General Paszkiewicz as a liar.