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daring to take such a position."
World public opinion, Dr. Gold-
mann declared, should be mobil-
ized "in order to put an end to this
demagoguery and to prevent the
Dr.- Nahum Goldman told a Polish government from preparing
meeting of the WJCongress' Amer- show-trials to justify their immoral
ican Section, however, that there anti-Jewish policy."
was good -reason to be worried
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about the consequences for the
Jews of a change of policy of the
Dubcek government or of a change
in the government itself.
He called upon the international
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Semitism in Poland which he call-
LONDON — The Supreme Court
ed crude and contrasted with of the Russian Federation Tuesday
Poland's "very good record of only confirmed sentences of banishment
two years ago of fostering Jewish and labor camps for five dissent-
culture and life."
ers, among whom were Dr. Pavel
He called the "governmentally- Litvinov and Mrs. Larisa Daniel,
organized persecution" of Polish it was reported here.
The dissenters had been convict-
Jews a "tragic situation" and said
that the regime's anti-Jewish and ed of a breach of the peace by
anti-"Zionist" crusade stemmed public demonstrations against the
from ail internal power struggle Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslo-
in which Jews were being used as vakia.
Mrs. Daniel, wife of imprisoned
a "scapegoat." The principals in
the struggle he identified as Go- writer Yuli Daniel, had been sen-
tenced to four years' banishment.
mulka and Moczar.
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Last Jew Ousted From Polish Politburo:
Beds Plan to Speed Up Student Trials to
Curb Worldwide Protests Now Under Way
LONDON (JTA) — Wladyslaw
Gomulka was re-elected first sec-
retary of the Polish Communist
Party at the party congress in
Warsaw which dismissed Vice Pre-
mier Eugeniusz Szyr, the only Jew
remaining in the powerful party
Politburo.
It dropped as well Foreign Min-
ister Adam Rapacki who had taken
a moderate line in foreign policy
and had reportedly disagreed with
the invasion of Czechoslovakia and
the purge of hundreds of "Zion-
ists" and "revisionists" from par-
ty government posts last spring.
According to reports from War-
saw,. the Polish government also
decided to speed up the secret
trials of students and faculty mem-
bers, mostly Jewish, who were
arrested for allegedly fomenting
demonstrations for democratic re-
form last spring.
The government had reportedly
intended to delay the trials until
after the party Congress but
changed its mind when the World
Union of Jewish Students an-
nounced here last week that it was
mobilizing student protests all over
the world in opposition to them.
Party leaders said they wanted
to "take the wind out of the stu-
dents' sails" by moving up the
trial date. Some of the arrested
students have been in jail for more
than six months.
Reports from Warsaw said the
composition of the new Politburo
and the party central committee
is definitely "hard line" and
linked more strongly than before
to the Kremlin which has given
its full support to Gomulka.
The latter's chief rival, former
Interior Minister Gen. Miecyzlaw
Moczar, who was regarded as the
main force behind the anti-Jewish
purges and propaganda campaign
last spring and summer, was de-
nied full membership in the Polit-
buro.
The apparent political setback
for Gen. Moczar surprised some
observers in the Polish capital but
it was attributed to his advocacy
of extreme nationalism rather
than his hard-line on "Zionists"
and "revisionists."
Gen. Moczar was named an al-
ternate member of the Politburo
and the central committee's secre-
tary in charge of security and
armed forces last July when the
anti-"Zionist" campaign was at its
height. He had appeared in line for
full membership in the Politburo
and is still considered to be a
power for Gomulka to reckon with.
Another hard-liner elected to the
Politburo was Wladyslaw Kruczek,
party leader from the Asessow
area, who delivered the toughest
denunciation of "Zionism" and "re-
visionism" heard at the congress.
Kruczek was one of three new
members elected to replace Ra-
packi, Vice Premier Franciszek
Waniolka and Vice Premier Szyr.
The latter had been in charge of
science and technology. His re-
moval left the Politburo without a
Jewish member for the first time
since the Communists took power
in Poland in 1944. Szyr was as-
sociated with much criticized short-
comings in scientific and techno-
logical fields.
In Paris, more than a thousand
Frenchmen — members of Parlia-
ment and former cabinet ministers
among them — attended a rally
organized by the French Union of
Eastern European Jews to protest
tta anti-Semitic measures of the
Polish government and the cultural
and religious repression of Soviet
Jews.
The principal speaker, Gen.
Pierre Koenig, charged that the
Soviet and Polish governments
were "directing the anti-Semitic
movements" all over Eastern Eu-
rope. Salomon Friederich, speak-
ing on behalf of the sponsoring
group, declared that Hitler and
Stalin were "not dead but have,
on the contrary, formed a new
alliance."
Jewish and non-Jewish stu-
dents in London began an all-
night silent vigil outside the
Polish Embassy and the private
residence of the Polish ambas-
sador to protest the forthcoming
trials. Similar demonstrations
were held on university cam-
puses in London and in the prov-
inces. They were organized by
the World Union of Jewish Stu-
dents who were joined by vari-
ous non-Jewish student groups in
proclaiming Nov. 18 a day of
international protest against the
student trials. Cables denounc-
ing the trials were sent by stu-
dent groups to Secretary-Gen-
eral U Thant of the United Na-
tions, to the British Foreign Of-
fice and to the Polish Embassy.
In Tel Aviv, local students join-
ed the movement with the publi-
cation of protest statements direct-
ed to the Warsaw regime. They
denounced the use of anti-Semitism
as a weapon in Poland's internal
political struggles and expressed
concern over the safety of the sur-
viving Jewish community in that
country. The students said their
protest was not against the Com-
munist regime in Warsaw but
against a regime that exploited
anti-Semitism.
In Buenos Aires, Zionist students
sent a letter to the Polish ambas-
sador, Bernard Bogdanski, calling
the planned trials "discrimina-
tory." They wrote that the fact
that many of the students facing
trial are Jewish "indicates a form
of discrimination inconsistent with
the principles of justice and equali-
ty and tarnish the Socialist tradi-
tion." Jewish students at the Uni-
versity of Buenos Aires cabled the
ambassador, "We are deeply con-
cerned by the arrests and trials
of students in Poland as we protest
and request their freedom. Stop
discriminatory measures against
Jews."
Also in Buenos Aires, Argentine
Jews of Polish origin drafted a
note of protest to be sent to Gomul-
ka, in which they demanded
an end to the persecution of Po-
land's small_ surviving Jewish
population. The meeting resolved
to ask Gomulka to permit Jews to
emigrate, to be reunited with their
families in Israel and to permit
Jews remaining in Poland to con-
tinue Jewish lives and maintain
contacts with Jews abroad.
Jewish students have asked the
Swiss Federal Government to in-
tervene with the Polish govern-
ment on behalf of those who face
secret trials.
The Union of Jewish Students
also sent a telegram to the Polish
ambassador in Berne which said
"We urgently request you to put
an end to the trials against the
students in your country and ask
that your government free the
students who were imprisoned."
Students at the University of
Brussels Wednesday issued a state-
ment condemning Poland's "re-
pression of students who had dem-
onstrated for more freedom, de-
mocracy and socialism in their
country." The students also de-
nounced "the anti-Semitic policy—
officially called anti-Zionism — of
the Polish government" and de-
manded the freeing of the students
and intellectuals presently facing
trial.
Meanwhile, in New York, the
president of the World Jewish
Congress said that the position
of Czechoslovakian Jewry has
not deteriorated since the War-
saw Pact invasion and that Jew-
ish communities in the occupied
country can continue their nor-
mal activities,
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Dr. Litvinov had been sentenced to
five years' internal exile. He is the
grandson of former Foreign Minis-
ter Maxim Litvinov.
Others involved were Konstantin
Babitsky, a literary critic; Vladi-
mir Dremliuga, a laborer; and
Vladimir Delone, a former student.
Litvinov Sentenced
to Banishment
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