General Kazimiers Sosnkowski, new Polish Commander-in-Chief, will shortly issue a statement reaffirming that the policy of the Polish Government and Army as regards the Jews remains as it was under the leadership of the late Premier Sikorski, it was learned here today.
At the same time Polish official quarters today issued a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency denying a report credited to Kazimierz Armin, Polish Consul in Johannesburg, to the effect that the Polish Government had planned to organize Jewish military units composed of Polish citizens in Russia but that Jews opposed the project.
The statement emphasizes that the formation of separate Jewish units in the Polish Army in Russia would have been contrary to the fundamental policy of the Polish Government. A previous report stated that a separate unit of the Polish Army, consisting of 1,000 Polish Jews, had been formed at Buzuluk under the leadership of a Polish commander prior to the evacuation of all Polish forces from the U.S.S.R.
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