A group of France’s most prominent pro-Communist and left-wing intellectuals called on the Polish Government today to abandon its “systematic anti-Semitic campaign” in order to cleanse Poland’s “honor and good name.” The signatories to the letter to the Polish Government and Communist Party leadership in Warsaw included Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon, Simon de Beauvoir, Elsa Triolet and Nobel Laureate Alfred Kastler. Several of the signers have been or still are members of the Communist Party.
Their letter noted that “under no circumstances can we be charged with being anti-Communist or enemies of Poland.” It called for an end to the “systematic defamation and suspicion” surrounding Jews and to the “unjustified sanctions against many of them” so that Polish Jews can “live a normal life.”
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