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Polish Anti-Pogrom Broadcasts Urged

May 6, 1940
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Polish Jewish leaders here today urged the exiled Government to initiate Polish-language broadcasts to Poland warning the population against Nazi incitement to anti-Jewish excesses.

The suggestion was made in connection with the Government’s plans to include the Yiddish and Ukrainian tongues in the regular broadcasts to Poland. Jewish circles pointed out that although the Yiddish broadcasts would be appreciated as a friendly gesture, they would not be as effective as anti-pogrom appeals broadcast in the Polish language.

Meanwhile, the Polish newspaper Slovo, published here, printed an article by M. Mazkiewicz, its editor, in which he attacks Deputy Ignacy Schwartzward for airing Polish-Jewish relations here and in occupied Poland. The article, heavily blue-pencilled by the French censor, warned Jews not to "cry wolf" and not to complain of injustices toward Jews in Poland and abroad. "Otherwise," Mazkiewicz declared, "we shall have to write about the Jewish attitude toward the Poles in Soviet-occupied territory."

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