§ Professor Savory71, 72 and 73. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether he is aware that Monsieur Tarnawski, a member of the Polish National Democratic Party and Professor of English at the Cracow University, was arrested last January, immediately after his visit to the British Ambassador; and whether he will make inquiries as to the reasons for his detention, in violation of the Potsdam and Yalta Agreements;
156W(2) whether he is aware that Colonel Walkowicki, Chairman of the Cracow Organisation of the National Democratic Party, was arrested in June, 1947, and has since been sentenced to a term of 3½ years' imprisonment, on a general charge of spreading discontent; and whether, in view of the pledges given by the Polish Government at Yalta and Potsdam, he will protest against this infringement of these two Agreements;
(3) whether he is aware that Monsieur Kazimierz Baginski, a former member of the Polish Parliament and a prominent member of the Polish Peasant Party, one of the i6 leaders imprisoned by the Russians in 1945 and eventually released after detention in a Soviet prison, was arrested in Poland last May; and whether he will protest against this further violation of the Yalta and Potsdam Agreements.
Mr. McNeilI was aware that sentence had been passed on Mr. Baginski, but I have received no information about the other two cases. I know of nothing in the Potsdam or Yalta Agreements relevant to such cases.