ABSTRACT
The original Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (P.P.S.) found itself under heavy pressure from the state machinery, legal promotion of its activities being almost impossible. The Polish Socialist party, canvassing in tandem with the Communist party, had already agreed before the elections to a distribution of seats in the Polish parliament, each party being allotted 119 seats. In their propaganda they differentiated between C. Titel Petrescu and Lotar Radaceanu Socialists—fighting the first and supporting the latter—and gained control of the party by infiltrating its ranks up to the highest levels with their own secret members. The original P.P.S. having vacated the public scene, the official party was recognized in May 1946 by the International Socialist Conference—the forerunner of the post-war Socialist International—as representing the Socialist movement in Poland. In the atmosphere of the Cold War, any hopes of overcoming the split in the international Labour movement could only remain unfulfilled.
