Jews Fear Nara Drive Boomerang

While unverified reports were being circulated that the assassin of Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki was a Ukrainian who had been captured by police in Lwow and brought here today by airplane, the Jewish population of this city was beginning to wonder whether the government’s intensive drive against anti-Semitic Naras and Endeks might not prove a boomerang.

The latest development that has given Warsaw Jews pause is the announcement that appeared in today’s issue of the Express Poranny, usually well-informed pro-government organ, relative to the use to which the government’s newly ordered concentration camps were to be put.

The concentration camps, which were ordered established following the assassination last week of Col. Pieracki, are destined for all radicals, the newspaper stated. “All radicals,” the announcement pointed out, “was meant to include all radicals of either the right or left.” Specifically mentioned in the paper’s statement was “the Red Front, comprising Jewish groups for a defensive fight against Endek youth organizations.”

FEAR NEW PLOTS

Mention of “the Red Front,” which never has been mentioned in any official or unofficial communications since the beginning of the Nara-Endek excesses, is considered of ominous import by the Jewish population. It tends to lend added credence to recent reports to the effect that new plots against the Jews are being hatched by the various anti-Semitic organizations here.

Adding to the fears of the Jewish population in the territory affected by anti-Semitic violence is the fact that the Naras who were arrested in the drive to suppress the wave of terrorism that was climaxed by the assassination of Col. Pieracki are being released. The last batch of Naras was freed today, including Jan Mosdorf, their leader, and all Endek lawyers who had been arrested previously were also set free.