A group of French parliamentarians today adopted a resolution calling for an international inquiry by neutral powers into treatment of Polish, Jewish and other groups in Nazi-held territories.
The resolution proposed that neutral governments seek permission of the German authorities to send a mixed commission into the German territories to determine the authenticity of reports of atrocities and mass expulsions of populations.
The beginning of a drive to remove Jews from the Old Reich to Lublin, opening with the expulsion of 900 from Stettin, came as a surprise to Czech and Polish official circles here, which had expressed the belief that President Roosevelt’s sending of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles to Europe would lead to temporary abatement of the transfers of population in the Nazi territories.
The 900 Stettin Jews, believed to constitute the town’s entire male Jewish population, were summoned by telephone and telegram to appear at the railway station at a certain hour with warm clothing and food supplies for two days. They were then piled into cattle trains and entrained for Lublin.
A few weeks ago several hundred Jews in Stettin were ordered to leave their homes to make place for repatriated Baltic Germans. They were quartered in stables for two weeks and were permitted to return to their homes after the Germans proceeded to other cities.
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