A French left-wing organization today condemned the Polish regime’s anti-Semitic policies and demanded that Poland’s Communist Party chief. Wladyslaw Gomulka. honor the pledge he made last October that the campaign against “Zionists” and “revisionists” would not take on an anti-Semitic character. The demand was made in a letter to Mr. Gomulka and to Prime Minister Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland by the Movement Against Anti-Semitism and Racism which in the past has often collaborated with extreme left-wing bodies. The organization expressed its concern and world anxiety over the fate of Polish Jews. It said, “the anti-Zionist policy of the Polish Government seems to have overlapped into other fields and to have caused a reawakening of anti-Semitism in Poland.”
A mass protest demonstration against Poland’s treatment of the Jews was held here yesterday under the auspices of the newly formed Action Committee Against Racist Activities in Poland which described itself as a “liaison body.” Its membership includes prominent members of the extreme left in France. Observers here said the protests by the leftist groups have further weakened the local Communists, especially since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and that their activities will weigh heavily in both Moscow and Warsaw.
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