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"in the name of humanity" the
"immediate denunciation" by the
Warsaw regime of all incitement
to hatred against Jews, cessation
of all discriminatory treatment,
threats and oppression, the restor-
ation to their posts of those dis-
missed because of their Jewish
origins and freedom for Polish
Jews to live in dignity in accord-
ance with the Universal Declara-
tion of Human Rights adopted by
the United Nations 20 years ago.
Anglo-Jewish leaders expressed
displeasure over the apparent in-
tention of the Polish ambassador to
ignore the letter of protest. Sir
Barnett predicted that the letter
would be returned.
He said, "We did not see the
ambassador, although it may be
that he was not available, but the
position is very serious and we are
very disappointed."
Sir Barnett said that the deputa-
tion was told by an embassy Offi-
cial that the information they had
al' the situation in Poland was
t. Fidler said that if the
le is returned "I hope we will
be told just in what respect our
information is incorrect."
The Sunday Observer reported
that 300 Polish Jews left Poland
last week on exit visas as a result
of Con-ununist Party leader Wladis-
law • Gomulka's recent statement
that those who were "loyal to
Israel" would be given permission
to leave Poland. "It is known that
many thousands have asked for
visas," the paper said. The Daily
Telegraph reported that those who
emigrate must renounce Polish
nationality. The paper added that
hundreds of Jews in responsible
positions in the Polish government,
party and press and in academic
and artistic life have been ousted
in the past few weeks. The violent
press attacks against "cosmopoli-
tan" agents of Zionism are unabat-
ed, and widespread discrimination
is rife against all Poles of Jewish
origin causing deep concern among
Poland's 20,000 Jews," the Tele-
graph said.
Reports reaching here from War- .
saw quoted attacks against Sir
Barnett and Dr. S. Levenberg,
representative of the Jewish Agen-
cy, in the Polish Communist Party
newspaper, Trybuna Ludu. Sir Bar-
nett was assailed for his speeches
in Parliament condemning Polish
anti-Semitism. The paper published
two dispatches from London, con-
taining detailed proceedings of the
Poale Zion and Zionist Federation
annual conferences and decried
the "political influence" of Poale
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Zion whose members, it said, num-
ber a majority of the Jewish Labor
Party MPs and a number of House
of Lords members. One of the dis-
patches, sent by PAP, the official
Polish press agency, condemned an
"anti-Polish" resolution adopted at
the Zionist parley "following the
lead of Levenberg and supported
by Janner." The newspaper assert-
ed that the Zionist Federation did
nothing during World War II to
help the Warsaw Ghetto fighters.
According to dispatches from
Warsaw, the attacks on Zionism
have spilled over into attacks
against the current - liberalization
movement in the Czech government
and Czech Communist Party. Try-
buna Ludu said, in an editorial,
that the content and tone of the
Czechoslovak statements were "of-
ten similar to those made by im-
perialist and Zionist centers in the
West that are conducting an anti-
Polish campaign." The editorial re-
ferred to recent criticism of Po-
land's anti-Jewish campaign ema-
nating from Czechoslovakia and
other Czech press, radio and tele-
vision comment which irked the
Poles. Jozef Barecki, deputy edi- -
tor of Trybuna Ludu, told a party_
meeting in Warsaw that "anti--
socialist and Zionist forces" in
Czechoslovakia were demanding
bourgeois political parties and im-
proved ties with West Germany
and Israel and were attacking
party cadres and "fraternal coun-
tries."
An official of the Polish com-
munist party used a concentration
camp memorial unveiling Tuesday
as the occasion for a scathing at-
tack on Israel and Zionism. Ac-
cording to reports from Warsaw,
Zenon Klyszko, member of the
central committee of the Polish
Communist Party and deputy
speaker of the Sejm (parliament),
made no mention of Jews when he
enumerated the nationalities of
persons who perished at the Stutt-
hoff Concentration Camp. The
camp, the first to be established
by the Nazis on Polish soil, was
liberated 23 years ago this month.
The anniversary of the Stutthoff
liberation drew some 50,000 per-
sons to the site where a memorial
monument was dedicated. Among
the high government officials pres-
ent were Minister of Interior. -Mi-
eczlaw Moczar, investigator of the
campaign of incitement against -
Jews, and Janusz Wieczorek, head
of the authority for the preserva-
tion of memorials. Although the
theme. of the memorial was the
martyrdom of the Stutthoff vic-
tims, among them ,tens of thous-
ands of Jews, Klyszko devoted a
large part of his speech to a con-
demnation of Israel "reactionaries
and militarists" whom he accused
of having "a forgiving attitude
toward the Hitlerite murderers"
while "international Zionist cen-
ters persist in fanning the anti-
Polish campaign." The newspaper
"Folkstimme," Warsaw's only Yid-
dish daily, published Klyszko's
speech in full without comment.
Journalists Stage Protest
in Igrael; Appeal to Poland
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Israeli journalists,
speaking collectively as members
of their profession, added their
voices Monday night to the rising
tide of protest here and abroad
against Poland's current anti-Jew-
ish - campaign.
The journalists, representing all
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attended a protest meeting at Jour-
nalist 'House, and adopted a resolu-
tion expressing deep concern over
"the resurgence of anti-Semitism
in a country which was the grave-
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ish' leaders "and their subordinates
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making Poland's few surviving
Jews the scapegoats for the coun-
try's internal difficulties."
Paper Says Anti-Jewish Drive
Recalls Saddest Aspects
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campaign 'deeply offends the
many Americans who otherwise
sympathize with Poland's legitimate
strivings.' It described what was
going on in Poland as the elimina-
tion of the Jews who had returned
to Poland after the war and had
been "seated in power by the Red
Army" by "a Communist faction
based among Poles who passed the
war underground at home."
The editorial declared that "the
fair objection to the purge is not
that one group or generation of
Jewish Communists is losing out.
The objection is that, in a coun-
try in which Jews have seen such
tragedy, the purge is being con-
ducted in .a publicly, provocatively
anti-Semitic way." The newspaper
asserted that Communist Party
Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka is de-
fending a . political line ."which
denies the courage that led many
Poles to help Jews during the war.
The campaign, recalls the saddest
aspects of pre-Communist Poland."
Rescinding of Poland's
Tariff Privilege in U.S.
Urged by Bnai Brith
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bnai
Brith proposed • that the United
States rescind Poland's most-favor-
ed-nation tariff privilege in protest
against the Polish regime's current
policy of "promoting anti-Semitism
and hostility to the West." The or-
ganization's board of governors,
concluding a two-day meeting, de-
clared- that the conditions which
led to thiS preferential status no
longer held for Poland, whose gov-
ernment "has responded with bru-
tal force and shameful fabrica-
tions, combining police clubs and
political anti-Semitism to defeat
freedom." The most-favored bene-
fits - provide for exports from
specific countries to enter the
United States under the-lowest pos-
sible tariff duties. In 1958, Con-
gress authorized the President to
extend the advantages to Yugo-
slavia and Poland—the only East
European nations so favored—in
recognition of their efforts to move
away from Soviet domination and
seek closer ties with the West.
The board said the Polish ,gov-
ernment, "borrowing from the no-
torious tactic of the Russian
Czars, has played on anti-Semitic
prejudices and scapegoated the
Jew to deflect attention . from its
own offenses." It declared that
"no one is deceived" by Poland's
claim that its target was Zionists,
not Jews, and characterized the
regime as one of the "dwindling
number" in Eastern Europe "that
slavishly follows Moscow's lead."
Farbstein Wants Amendment to
Permit Entry of Polish Jews
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
nday, May 17, 1968-5
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would facilitate the entry of Jew-
ish refugees from Communist Po-
land. It would allow refugees from
Communist nations to qualify for
U.S. entry without first moving to
a non-Communist nation. Farbstein
said that the present law requires
that a person must have escaped
from behind the Iron Curtain to
qualify for immigration. He said
"It is unjust that we require them
to escape --from their country be-
fore we will help them."
Farbstein said, "T her e are
plenty of places available under
Poland's remaining immigration
quota for entry into the U.S. But
most of the Jews who would im-
migrate fail to qualify under the
first six quota preferences of the
Immigration Act and are excluded
by a technicality under the seventh
preference. It is that technicality
that I would seek to amend."
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