One-party Plan for Poland Outlined Secretly Before Sejm Body

A plan for political reorganization of Poland, seeking to transform the republic into an authoritarian, one party State under the leadership of Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz was described in a Warsaw dispatch to the New York Times today by Otto Tolischus.

The plan, which was to be outlined today before a Sejm committee meeting in camera, was said to provide the following:

Proclamation of a leader equivalent to the Fuehrer or Duce;

Appointment of a grand council equivalent to the Fascist Grand Council in Italy;

Creation of “one totalitarian, authoritarian and apparently self-perpetuating political organization that will ultimately supplant the political parties of the moribund Polish democracy.”

According to Mr. Tolischus, merged in the new organization will be “all the classes and interests in the country under the banner of nationalism, military preparedness, and social and economic reform.”

The New scheme, Mr. Tolischus writes, apparently aims to complete “Polonization” by proclaiming the Poles, who number 22,000,000 of the 34,000,000 population, the “ruling nation.”

“This presumably means,” the correspondent declares, “that the Poles will reserve the government and key positions for themselves while the minorities will probably continue enjoying the ‘rights of citizens,’ but not those of ‘rulers'”.

The program is designed, according to the dispatch, as an attempt to restore governmental authority and to avert a youth revolt by “leading it into evolutionary channels.”

“Like a good part of present Government policy,” the dispatch states, “including the campaign for Jewish emigration if not ‘evacuation’, it is designed to take the wind out of the opposition’s sails, especially the Nationalist element, and at the same time appeal to the peasants as potentially the biggest power in the State.”