·WHATNEXT-IN POLAND? By LISTON M. OAK. AFTER THE FRAUDULENT ELECTION. WHAT CAN BE DONE BY THE U.S.A. AND BRITAIN? Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of Poland's Peasant Party, who represents the best hope of the people of this country for independence and democracy, gave me an exclusive three-hour interview on the eve of my departure. He recapitulated the facts about his continuing fight to prevent the domination of Poland by a tiny minority of Communists acting as agents of a foreign power. I have also had the great privilege of spending an afternoon LISTON M. OAK. in Cracow with Zygmunt Zulawski, the grand old man of Polish social democracy. He is one of the truly great figures of European Socialism-the sort of person who restores one's dwindling faith, one's hope that all is not yet lost. From his sickbed Zulawski continues to challenge the forces of totalitarianism. " I have only a few more years of life," he told me, with fire in his eyes, " and it is too late for me to become a careerist or a coward. I will never capitulate, for without freedom life is not worth the living." The only " crime " these two champions of liberty have committed is their stubborn, persistent opposition to both the Nazi and the Bolshevik invasion, their insistence that without freedom Socialism means slavery. But for this H crime " both 7 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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