Mr. Speaker may have a different opinion about freedom of speech in Poland from that which I hold. But the real facts are best illustrated by the fate of Daszynski's article directed at the "Sanacja" lackeys. They themselves did not censor it at that time although they had the power to do so and the quotation from .it has been censored only to-day, so that it should not form an analogy with the present conditions. No, I did not offend against one single provision of the law in my speech and if in spite of this my words were censored, then it could have been only for the reason that these words made certain people feel ashamed. You can censor them again, because you have the power to do so, a power in which you have more faith than in your own arguments. You have an overwhelming majority; therefore you can decide whatever you like. Do not then be afraid of words where you have not been afraid of deeds and shoulder your responsibility for these deeds in such a way that you can quietly .... SPEAKER: Citizen Deputy, you are delivering a new speech. ZuLAWSKI: Yes, because I am in Parliament, Mr. Speaker. SPEAKER : Please keep to the point. ZULA WSKI : Of course. Do not be afraid to listen quietly to the accusations of your opponents and to the voice of public opinion. It is for the first and-I assure you-for the last time that I now appeal to you as gentlemen and to your political common sense : do not allow a situation to develop in which it will not he possible to speak freely in this House. Believe me, if this weak opposition to which you can oppose a power twenty times as strong, were saying even the greatest heresies, it would still be less detrimental to the State than to destroy this last bulwark of freedom which is the Parliament rostrum. At this moment, when everyone is speaking about the need for the rule of law and about the return to the rule of law, I wish the Censor and the Controller of the Press were not the symbols of our political conditions, even over the heads of the Sejm and its Speaker, the Government and its Premier. Accordingly I submit the following motion : " That this House do now restore to the Parliamentary Report of February 8th, 1947, the deleted passages of my speech," 0063:._6 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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