§ THE EARL OF CRAVENI beg to ask the second question standing in my name.
§ [The question was as follows:
§ To ask His Majesty's Government whether it is their intention to make arrangements to send a small commission of foreign diplomats to observe the forthcoming elections in Poland as has been arranged in Greece, and to ask whether, if this is not their intention, they will state their reasons.]
§ LORD AMMONMy Lords, the Polish Provisional Government have pledged themselves to His Majesty's Government and the Governments of the United States and the U.S.S.R. in the terms of the Crimea Agreement on Poland to hold "free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot," in which "all democratic and anti-Nazi parties shall have the right to take part and to put forward candidates" The Polish President further assured the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Potsdam that the elections would be held on the basis of the 1921 Polish Constitution. If these pledges are strictly fulfilled! in the arrangements made for the elections, an international Corn-mission would not appear necessary.