Report Jews Can Leave Pobnd Freely Proves
False; Gonaka Opens Anti-Semitic Pandora Box
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Official
sources said here Sunday that there
are no grounds for a report pub-
lished in London that Polish Jews
have been given freedom to emi-
grate and that a mass aliya (im-
migration) has developed to Israel.
According to government circles,
the Jewish Agency and the Asso-
ciation of Polish Jews in Israel,
there has been no aliya whatso-
ever from Poland since last June's
Six-Day War when Poland severed
diplomatic relations with Israel.
These sources said they had no
information about facilities for
Jews waiting to leave Poland. A
survey of various European capi-
tals by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency confirmed that there has
been no movement of Jews out of
Poland in recent months.
Gomulka Spurs Bias
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Am-
bassador John Gronouski, who ten-
dered his resignation Wednesday
as U.S. envoy to Poland, has re-
ported here to members of Con-
gress that Warsaw is the scene of a
bitter power struggle marked by
virulent anti-Semitism. He never-
theless urged rejection of the Bnai
Brith recommendation that Poland
should be deprived of its "most-
favored-nation" status. It was
learned that the ambassador said
that long-range hopes of reducing
tensions and encouraging liberal
elements in Poland justified the
United States in continuing to ex-
tend special tariff privileges denied
to the USSR. The "most-favored-
nation" status was extended to
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Warsaw in 1960, mainly because of
liberal steps taken after 1956.
Ambassador Gronouski said that
Poland's crisis was precipitated
last June when Communist Party
chief Wladylsaw Gomulka slavish-
followed Moscow's anti-Israel line
on the Six-Day War and thereby
antagonized many Poles including
some party officials He said that
out of sheer frustration Gomulka
intemperately attacked Polish
Jewry charging that Jews were
"Zionists" and therefore potential
traitors. This, said the ambassador,
opened a Pandora's box of anti-
Semitism.
Gomulka is being challenged by
Gen. B. Moczar, interior minister,
a doctrinaire Communist who also
dabbles in anti-Semitism. The gen-
eral appears likely to improve his
power
political position in t h
struggle with Gomulka, the envoy
reported. But he expressed doubt
that Gomulka would lose his post,
although other leaders may fall
at a party congress to be held next
winter.
British Express Concern
About Fate of Toeplitz,
Polish Film Figure
LONDON (JTA) — Officials of
the Internationlal Federation of
Film Archives expressed anxiety
over the absence of news about
the group's president, the prominent
Polish film director Prof. Jerzy
Toeplitz, who was a recent victim
of the ongoing purge of Jews from
top posts in the government-
controlled Polish film industry. Ac-
cording to the Sunday Observer,
Prof. Toeplitz was expected in Lon-.
don where he was due to chair
the federation's annual congress
which opened here Thursday. Toep.
litz was dismissed last month as
director of the Polish Film, School
in Lodz. The Polish embassy here
declined to furnish information
about his whereabouts. It is as-
sumed that the Warsaw authori-
ties are preventing him from leav-
ing Poland because they don't want
to see him win any further esteem
abroad, the Observer said. Prof.
Toeplitz has been president of the
federation for 20 years.
(Prof. Toeplitz and other promi-
nent Jews purged from the Polish
film industry were the subjects of
a letter published in the New York
Times over the weekend protest-
ing the "current anti-Semitic ac-
tions in Poland." The letter was
signed by 13 of America's leading
film critics, all members of the
National Society of Film Critics.
They named Prof. Toeplitz, Alek-
sander Ford, Jan Rybowski and
Jerzy Bossak, among other leaders
of Poland's film arts, who were
purged because they are Jews.)
(The N.Y. Times reported from
Warsaw that the official Polish
Press Agency, PAP, has renewed
its charges that Jewish police and
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hebrew
University classes on Mt. Scopus
in the Old City of Jerusalem will
be attended by some 2,500 students
beginning next fall, university pres-
ident Avraham Harman told the
press here.
Prior to the Six-Day War, when
the Old City was seized from
Jordan by Israel, the Scopus uni-
versity facility, abandoned 19 years
earlier during the 1948 War of
Independence, had been inacces-
sible except for United Nations-
escorted Israeli troops who oc-
cupied the Scopus enclave.
The main campus of the univer-
sity was built in the Israeli-held
section of Jerusalem following the
1948 war. The government would
pay half the cost of repairing the
existing buildings and erecting new
ones, Harman said.
ghetto administrators collaborated
with the Nazis in the extermina-
tion of Polish Jews during World
War II. The charges were first.
published during the height of
Poland's so-called "anti-Zionist"
campaign when "Zionists" and
"discredited Stalinists" were ac-
cused of fomenting student unrest.
Monday's PAP story, however, said
that the alleged collaborators
"were in face only a small fraction
of the Jewish population, but did
many irreparable wrongs." The
Times' Warsaw correspondent,
Jonathan Randal, reported that
the Roman Catholic Church in Po-
land is highly sensitive to charges
that the political crisis has pro-
duced anti-Semitism. "High church
sources prefer to see the 'anti-
Zionist' campaign, its attendant
purge of some Jews and the re-
pression of intellectuals less in
terms of discrimination than as a
settling of accounts among Com-
munists," Randal wrote.)
Sen. Scott Urges Protest
of Polish Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen Hugh
Scott, Pennsylvania Republican,
said "the United States govern-.
ment should express its concern
to the Polish government" over
the mounting wave of anti-
Semitism in Poland. Addressing a
dinner tendered by the Yeshiva
University Graduate School of
Science, Scott urged stronger pro-
tests to relieve the Jewish plight.
Sen. Scott noted that some Com-
munist bloc nations were signaling
their independence from Moscow
by displaying a friendly attitude
toward Israel or Jews. He cited
Romania's refusal to sever diplo-
matic relations with Israel and
more r e c e n t developments in
Czechoslovakia. Although Czecho-
slovakia severed relations with
Israel during the Six-Day War, "its
public attacks never have been
especially virulent," he said. He
noted that the Council of Jewish
Communities in Prague has re-
ported good relations with the gov-
ernment, and preparations for the
celebration of 1,000 years of Jewish
culture in that country are under
way.
Boycott of Israeli Books
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli
Book Publishers Association Tues-
day denounced the Polish govern-
ment's boycott of Israeli books
and books on Israeli subjects.
The publishers declared that
every country has an obligation
to open its doors to all books. The
boycott of Israel's books can only
undermine international trust, the
statement said.
The Israeli delegation to the in-
ternational publishers convention
in Amsterdam next month will sub-
mit a resolution censuring Poland
for its book boycott.
(The New York Times reported
from Warsaw Tuesday that Poland
has acknowledged for the first time
that its current "anti-Zionist cam-
paign is hurting its foreign trade."
The Polish press agency PAP said
that "several Western trade con-
cerns" that canceled contracts with
Poland were motivated by "clearly
militant Zionism" but added that
its effect on Polish trade with the
West was negligible, the Times
said.)
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, May 24, 1968
British Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits Sends
Sympathies to Decimated Greek Jewish Community
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
An inscription on the momument
to The Jewish News)
notes that "Between 1939 and 1945,
LONDON—Britain's Chief Rabbi 18,000 prisoners from 13 European
Immanuel Jakobovits sent a mes- countries were done to death here
sage of sympathy on behalf of the by the Hitlerite murderers."
Anglo-Jewish community Tuesday
to the Jews of Greece, who have
just marked the 25th anniversary
of the destruction of the Jewish
community of Salonika by the
Nazis.
The message was addressed to
Dr. Joseph Lovinger, president of
the Central Council of Greek-Jewish
communities. Salonika had the
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largest Jewish community in
Greece prior to World War II. Only
a remnant survives there today.
AT
It was reported here from War-
saw Tuesday that representatives
of some 20 Jewish and non-Jewish
organizations placed wreaths on
the site of Mila 18, whfch housed
the high command of the Jewish
Cadillac
ghetto fighters during the Warsaw
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Ghetto resistance.
A monument was unveiled at the
MI 4-1930
site of the Stutthof concentration
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camp to mark the 23rd anniversary
of its liberation from the Nazis.
VIC DOUCETTE
WHAT KIND OF MAN
READS 3 YEARS OF
SCHOOL BOARD MINUTES?
DR. MERVYN
LAKIN
DOES
because education is important to
MERV LAKIN and .. .
because children and their ability to
cope with the future, is important
to MERV LAKIN and
because Southfield's citizens are con-
cerned about the quality of their
schools/ teachers, texts and curri-
culum content
and . . . because he DOES care
MERV LAKIN read 3 years of
school board minutes and
announces his candidacy for
Southfield School Board
ELECT HAROLD M.
VIZER
OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEE