The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-16

council of national unity, or under ground parliament, all through the war.
 However else the pre-war Polish government may be criticized, it cannot be said that it developed any Quislings. Credit for this belongs largely to the underground parlia- ment which, though it could not it. self function as a government, at least saw to it that there was no Polish collaboration with the Ger mans.
 At the head of this underground movement in Poland was a chief delegate who also ranked as Vice Premier of the London Polish Gov ernment in Exile. This was Jan Jan kowski who, next to the military leader and the only non-political leader, General Leopold Okulicki, was perhaps the biggest catch in the Russian 16-man bag.
 JankoWski was labor leader a lifelong member of the Christian Labor Party. After the Pilsudski coup in 1926, JankoWski withdrew from politics and devoted all his ef- forts to labor union organization. During the Warsaw uprising last fall, JankoWski was awarded the highest Polish military decoration for conspicuous gallantry, though he was not soldier.
 To charge a man with such a record as being pro-German seems fantastic This is equally true of Kazmierz Puzak, perhaps the third most important personality detained by the Russians. Puzax's record shows that in 1905 he was arrested and sentenced to death for leading an uprising against the Czar. His sentence was commuted to impri- sonment, but he was liberated by the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. He returned to Poland, entered politics, became secretary general of the So- cialist Party, was 8 founder of the underground, and escaped detection all through the war.
 A fourth leading figure among the Russian captives is Wincenty Wit wos, for the last 35 years head of the Peasant Party and three times premier of the old Polish govern ment.
 The other 12 political captives as far as general American knowledge is concerned, are unknown. largely unpronounceable and frequently unspellable names, except to readers Of the Polish h-American press. Yet because they may become symbols of Polish persecution in a celebrat- ed incident that may well spread dissension among the Big Three, they should be better known.
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 Included are national party lead CTS Tadeuscz Kobylanski publisher and senator; zbigniew Stypulkowski lawyer and student leader; Stanis- law JaSiukoWicz, cabinet member and doctor of economic science.
 Christian Labor Party leaders Jozef Chacinski, party chairman; and Franciszek Urbanski, secretary general of the Farm Laborers' Union.
 Peasant Party leaders Kazimierz odS1llSkl, lIlpTlSOneQ TOT radical le1t wing activities; Stanislaw Mierzwa, leader of the radical Peasant Youth Association; and Judge Adam Bien, cabinet member.
 Democratic Party members Czer- nix and Michalowski.
 Socialist Antoni Pajdak, former Deputy Mayor of Crakow.
 When March 00 fhroo Jo,,c thelr disappearance, full report of the incident was sent to Wash lngton and London. few people be- HeVed it. The treachery of forcibly detaining plenipotentiaries for whom safe conduct to London had been arranged was so great that only the Poles gave it credence till 1t was confirmed by Foreign Com mlssar V. M. Molotov in San Fran cisco