POLISH AFFAIRS.
CONSOLIDATION OF FORCES. ON CONSTRUCTIVE LINES. PARLIAMENT LIMITED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 23, 10.25 a.m. AVARSAAV, Feb. 22. In a speech broadcast throughout Poland, Colonel Adam Koc, Commander of the Legionnaires, announced a. new political platform for the consolidation of all the Polish constructive forces, which has been drawn up at the orders of Marshal Rydz Smigiy. Colonel Koc received an attentive hearing in the open air despite a heavy snowstorm. He spoke through a loudspeaker. The programme will limit 1 arhamentary powers, concentrate on defence, protect Catholicism, and utterly oppose Communism. Colonel Koc avoided the violent anti-Semitism urged by the Right Wing, hut a steady anti-Jewish economic drive is expected. The Opposition parties do not favour the programme.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 9
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