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As we spoke last night, I recalled

that prophecy he had made to

me in his flat in Warsaw.

by SEFTON DELMER

After

London, Nov. 4. them. And when the war of 1014- SAT last hight in a tle 18 came he took part in Poland's back room of a suburban Aght against the Germans. villa in Kenton talking to the war he came back to the little peasant homestead his father-d Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. The miner had built out of his savings. other reporters had left and we were on our own.

And as we talked I thought back to those inst days before Poland's General Election in January this year, when I used to see him almost every even- ing.

of his

Soon Mikolajczyk, slow poken, shrewd and desperately honest, was representing the peasants

in 1937 it district. And

peasants' Mikolajczyk who led the strike against the dictatorial Pilsud- skt regime.

When Poland was overrun by the Germans during the Inst war, escape,

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a first to France, and then to Britain, where he joined the Polish exiled

I used to Ko to Warsaw's Mikolajczyk managed Aleja Sucha, where he had flat in an apartment house re- served for Ministers and V.I.P.S.

In the meantime, the Russians, His confidential secretary. Maria after joining with the Germans in Hulewicz she has escaped from Poland in 1939, and deporting

Government.

Poles to Russlá

Poland with him--would let me themselves.

rival

13

had been They formed in, and after she had brought

Polish Government in coffee and cake Mikolajczyk Mesco

Moscow.

to The Kremlin meant put this Government inta power would talk.

In almost every conversation when they get to Poland, so that, the monieht would come when safe in Communist antids, Poland should never agrlo form the jump- Mikolajczyk would say: "Yes, ing-off point of an invasion of after the elections we shall be Soviet Russia.

Committee The National for it. It will be just a ques-

Sooner or later lenged the authority of the London tion of time.

Government. The Kremlin broke they will liquidate the party-off reintions with the Londoners. and me."

The Government, he said, would arrest, first, some of his

Premier

"Wiu are we gunning for today, grandma-imperialist warmongers or Russian bogeys??!

THE

BBC's 25TH

BIRTHDAY

chal-T was as foggy

u

that day. When the papers came that Tuesday morning. Novem- ber 14, 1922, the news was all about the next day's General Election, and not one reader in RITAIN and the United States, in 1,500 bothered much about followers, gei "confessions" BR

the interests of unity among middle-page item. "Broadcast- from them. and then they

The Allies,

for pressed

coming Tonight." would get him. "They'll prob- promise. Mr Mikolajczyk, who, by ably necuse me of high treason, this Ume, had become the Premier Even Arthur Burrows, as he

to the of the London Government, selling State secreta

ot British and American request to left his New Southgate villa at British and the Americans."

8 a.m. and journeyed slowly Well, his prophecy has been Moscow.

Mikołajczyk had several talks through the fog, saw nothing proved right all except the last with Stalin. He liked him. As he different in the day's work ahead of him at Marconi

part about himself.

It

New

told me in many of our talks, he

was impressed with the Russian's

sincerity and House.

In August and September Po- land's Communist Government straightforward

honesty of purpose.

ciates of Mikolajczyk, fellow roadened to include representatives practically was the B.B.C.....

Arthur Burrows

was waiting to hear if he would

was

planor her well-do you think you cull come and play Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique?" Clarkson said "Yes," ... but he never heard any more about it.

saya

At 6 o'clock in London litre was two-minuta tuning signal. "t came from an organ pipe," Stanton Jeffries. The trouble was it would keep fading away like a waiting pig."

Arthur

Alter the luning sigral Burrows came to the microphone.

His first words on that first day of regular broadcasting were: "This Com- is 2LO calling-the Marconi pany broadcasting on behalf of the Broadcasting Committee.

"Here ia the general weather situation based on the latest report from The Metcorological Office: anti-cyclone now centred over British Isles is lending to move northward. Fair poiled conditions

He

મ gave

An the

staged a big spotlighted treason An agreement was reached that. Yet for 20,000 listeners with be the B.B.C. secretary.

"I remember them well," are probable generally with mist or trial in Cracow, Among the the Palish Government which, in radio sets mariced "Officially

Arthur Burrows says Mr Albert Griggs, house fcg inland..

three-minute news accused were friends and asso- the meantime, had been set up in approved."

engineer at Magnet House. by the Russians should be Poland

the situation at Con- Jefferies, "Captain Reith was the man in summary

Lord stantinople

Curzon's As along with Stanton members of his large Polish bro

of the Lundon Government.

charge, Major Anderson

probable visit to Puria... Mr Again and

unfettered who had buttoned up his grey possible "free, Peasant Party.

100 13 and elections" were to be held on the spats and was on his way to his assistant. It seemed funny Bazar Law in Glasgow again charges were made evidence brought forward im- basts of which a new Government the Strand from the other side according to their ranks-the Mr Lloyd George in Lancashire on

He endod: boot was

wrong clection tours.

George H. Chirgwin, well known fout." plicating Mikolajczyk.

to music-hall patrons as the 'White- Re-arrests

cred Kamr,' died at Streatham, this morning, aged 08."

way to be consituted.

of London. Despite opposition from the more suspicious London Poles, Mikolajczyk What about John Charles Bew to Poland and joined the new Walsham Reith. the great Pallsh Government” 35 deputy

and Minister of director-general..

the on

and

Only five minutes' broadcasting

Anderson's first job, by the a typist. the aloof way, was to engage IT seemed likely that he was Prime Minister

"dictator" who forced the Mr Griggs knew about this destined to share the fate of Auriculture.

But soon Mikolajczyk and his B.B.C. into power? Where was when he got a scribbled note was allowed at a time, then there Nicolas Petkov, peasant leader

"Could you please arrange for had to be a three-minute interval in case the Government wanted to of Bulgaria, tried for treason party, while all officially part of he

He was wondering whether another cup of tea to be sent to put out an SOS. and executed, of Rumania's pea- the coalition, were driven into op- sant leader Juliu Maniu, and Their newspapers were censored he would get the job of general us from next Monday ?” Yugoslavia's peasant lender or suppressed, their party officials Jovanovic, now jailed for nine arrested, and the elections as I was able to see for myself-were so ar- ranged--as.. ensure a crushing majority for the Communists and their allies.

years.--

position.

1

Iy back

mont for staff.

Till noon.

It was

JUST

At 6.30

11

casting Company, still being

JUST on half-past six somebody manager to the British Broad- signed J. C. Reith.

popped his head in the studio planned. He thought he had a They were rearresting nearly

good chance. He was an Aber-

street to St Bride Innitute, where donlan

so was Sir William UP on the seventh floor of and said he was going down Flect Marconi Ilouse, in the Mr H. A. Hankty, on ex-Flect radio all the people they had released

Noble, chairman of the Broad- Strand, Arthur Burrows opened officer, was giving a. leo ure under the amnesty after the

Opposition

casting Committee which was the mail, then phoned through "Broadcasting" at 0.15 p.m. election," he said. "The textile

inbusy short-listing the 395 re to the electric supply company Jeffries and Burrows talked again workers had gone on strike in Lodz. The tension was growing Now Mikołajczyk

Britain, back where he started plles to their small advertise- about the 200-volt current for about getting some chimes that day. not a good daily. Had I been arrested it from in 1943.

210's 1-kilowatt transmitter. They felt that it was If he is not allowed to carry on First job was to make room might have caused a rising."

notes by tapping glasses partly filled kilowatt.).

with wuler. This is not the first time that from here his opposition to the pre- for Captain Reith on the second (The ones in use noe are 100 g makeshift to make different tough, bull-necked, blue-eyed seat regime in Poland, then I have floor of Magnet House, Kings-

way, 400 yards from the 200 Stanton Jefferies was caught Stanislaw Mikolajczyk has been no doubt he will move to. Some

other place where he can,

There would be just by an accordionist. "I had him on the run

Of one thing I am certain, and ali studio.

for him to sit there. playing for 40 minutes in the He was born near Poznan, in the he said to me last night confirms room

of Poland annexed by the it: Mikolajczyk has not left Poland sharing table and telephone studio-cum-office where Prussians, in 1793, on a previous simply to save his life. He has left with Major Percy Anderson, holding auditions. Believe it or Election results, which showed the There was Tories were in power under Bonar another ex-Army officer who not, I forgot him.

so much noise from engineers Law (Mr Churchill lost his seat at

Dundee). testing circuits, office-keepers Tests on November 14 showed unpacking crates, and workmen that the aerial from the flagetuff banging nails to hold up the pole at Birmingham was too 'Icase the wave-leng.h kept changing as the aerial vung in the wind. sound deadening ex- Army blankots."

AM

part

and because he thinks Germons when occasion Russians partitioned Poland between beiter from outside.

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Mrs Burrows had not listened-in she had been too busy to him cutting the three children, two boys girl, to bed. But she managed

and

D

I was

to listen next night to the General

"The possibility that England will be faced up with the future deprive- ment

of American films prompts At the same time on this day this talk about perserving culture in

me to ask what is the good of all up in Birmingham 40 painters Closing down

AT half-past eight Britain's ment has sent for Madame

this filing crliis of tivilisation it and carpentors were getting a

put on their Zaphroma, the Seer who can

APHROMA is a woman of many the educated pubile is to be cut off studio ready in a curtained-off.icensed listener,

centrul stores headphones, adjusted cats' whiskers words,

such all unintelligible. To cutka

from

sauce of knowledge and portion of the sec future Plans in the entrails the Inst politician who consulted her emotion as is conveyed to it in the shed of the General Electric and hushed anyone who was making

4 noise. pic- about the whole thing, she said, amazing, terrifying, appealing

This was factory at Whitton. the

For Tuesday evening at 8.30 was American turisations featured "When Sirius has entered the fourth turist

the BB.C.'s rival moon, and can deduce deduc- parallel of the Egorie, with Curtphon alms. The cementering of world to be the Birmingham station the hour when

came on the air from the Marconi tions from arrangementą" of

for a gont In the

International friendship through cul- of the B.B.C. grocer's beard,

Percy Edgar

Every pebbles. Ner Babylonios temptaris Neriphon below, zumi, zlam, zum, he fure relations can't be done by

Midland #ation at Writtle, Essex. (now eros was never written of who blows hot or cold, will blow closing the cinema doors to epics of director) was in charge the work it gave a gay, informal, must-

only B.B.C. man who has been in cal programme for half an hour. Zaphroma, who hvés on the nought but dirty feathers, until whatever nation-state,"

It was a

nultance for the BBC. to Merthyr

the same job right from the begin- windy edge of Duncton hill, Dragomarte be come

ning. He was worried because at From that very first day listeners that the the way Into the studlo rang the B.B.C. asking: "Could you close down?: You are interfering At Mr

Then Mr Burrows read the 9 pm. one of the Broadcasting Committee "Rolicarsals, my lady. I'm Eleanor members,

ran into an employee.news and weather report, and went of Akkilain."

named Clarkson in the doorway of hours early because of the log. Marconi House. He stopped film and said: "They tell me you play the

arranging her pebbles in pat- berdegullion take to himself as much

Tydvil, hocne, hoche, lest any, slub- Pageant weck

terms and eating largely of a beetroot as would cover the collar- "A your head. What hus cornet Junch lime, Be Godfrey Isaacs, with Writtle. kind of nettle-broth which she bone of a Polegate newt."

brows in a vast cauldron.

She

is said to be an

indirect Hogwarch

e descendant of the renowned-

Sibyl of Panzoust, whose soft- HOGWASCH has sent the foliow-

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