A delegation of the American Jewish Committee, which visited the Polish Embassy today expressed disappointment at failure to elicit any assurance from the Polish Government to suppress public manifestations of anti-Semitism. “While the embassy spokesman was courteous,” the committeemen reported, “the issues remained unresolved and the answers to our inquiries were unsatisfactory. We are dismayed at the possibility of a general resurgence of anti-Semitism in the absence of firm action by the highest authorities.”
The delegation members took the Polish position, as expressed by its spokesman, to be that if Jews were involved they were not being punished as Jews or Zionists. The Polish spokesman was quoted as saying that contrary reports in the foreign press were unfair. He reportedly denied that the Polish press has been participating in a campaign of vilification of the Jews, as has been charged.
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