British Government spokesmen indicated in Commons today that they did not intend to act, directly or through the exiled Polish Government, against Jestem Polakem, anti-Semitic Polish nationalist weekly.
Replying to questions by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, S.S. Silverman, Philip Noel-Baker and D.L. Lipson, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper stated that suppression of newspapers did not lie within the power of his ministry, while Foreign Undersecretary Richard A. Butler indicated that the British Government’s views were well known to the Polish Government.
Meanwhile, at a session of the Polish National Council, which unanimously approved the Government’s budget, Ignacy Schwartzbart, the Jewish member, said he was supported the budget as an expression of confidence that the Sikorski regime was fighting for the independence of Poland, but added that he was dissatisfied with part of the work of the Polish Ministry of Information, referring to the “unsatisfactory” handling of the Jestem Polakem matter.
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