The anti-Semitic National Democrats are resentful of the arrangements that are being made for the Maccabean Winter Sports at Zakopane on February 2nd to 5th. The chief National Democratic organ, “Gazeta Warszawska,” publishes a statement from “national quarters at Zakopane” demanding the prohibition of the sports festival.
There is an ancient Polish national tradition, the statement says, which conceives Zakopane as the most beautiful spot on Polish soil, and we cannot, therefore, allow Jews to congregate there. Nor is there any economic justification for holding such a gathering at Zakopane, it adds, because the Jews are notoriously closely related, and they will buy only in Jewish shops and will stay only in Jewish pensions.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is informed in this connection that the Ministry of the Interior has assured the leaders of the Maccabean Winter Sports that there will be complete order at Zakopane. The chief of the Security Department of the Ministry of the Interior will be present in person at Zakopane, and will direct the security operations.
Nor is there any likelihood, it is said, of National Democrats venturing on any disturbances in a place where large numbers of young and athletic Jews will be congregated, able to give a good account of themselves.
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