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APPENDIX. Zygmunt Zulawski's Lone Fight. ZYGMUNT ZULA WSKI Zygmunt Zulawski is a veteran Socialist leader, member of the Polish Parliament since 1919 until 1935 (when the Polish Opposition to the cc Sanacja" regime decidedtobqycottthegeneral election), Secretary General of the Polish T.U.C. and, since 1934, Chairman of the Supreme Council of .the Polish Socialist Parry. Aftervain attempts at co-operation with the leadership of the official Socialist Parry (founded in Lublin, 1944),he left that Parry in November 1946 and concludedan electoralagreementwith M. Mikolajc-:z,ysk' Polish Peasant Parry. Under this agreement,independent democraticSocialists stood as candidateson commonlists with the Polish Peasant Parry in the recent general election of January 19th, 1947. Most of these candidateswere, however,struck off the lists and Zulawski was the on!J onewhowas returned in Cracow. Below we give the full text of his speechesin the new(y electedParliament (Sejm). These speeches have their history. The first one, of February 8th, 1947, was heavi(y censored. On(y after several passages had beendeleted, was it allowed to appear in the PSL dai!Jpaper cc Gazeta Ludowa." Nor was this, all, as Zulawski's speech was complete(y suppressed in the Peasant weeklies cc Chlopski Sztandar," cc Piast" 43 BibliotecaGino Bianco

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