Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Justice, Administration of—Poland [Browse]
• Justice, Administration of. [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-135120. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-135120

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and press material concerning legal developments in Poland. The documents discuss the introduction of a new law by the Polish government increasing the minimum penalties for the "theft, embezzlement, or destruction of 'social property'" -- and the view of a Polish lawyer that this law contains "extremely severe regulations which are shocking to a lawyer used to traditional legal sentences". The documents also cover the intention of the Polish government to improve the "professional and moral standards" of those working for the Polish Prosecutor General. Other documents include an article published in Trybuna Ludu covering the trial of a former Gestapo officer in Kraków.

Notes

• File date: 1958.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1988.

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