A shake-up in the Polish Cabinet-in-exile which resulted in the removal of two known anti-Semites from important posts and the appointment of Dr. Henryk Strasburger, noted Polish diplomat and economist, as Finance Minister, was reported today by the local Polish newspaper Nowy Swiat.
Dr. Strasburger replaces Col. Adam Koc, founder of the anti-Semitic Camp of National Unity in pre-war Poland. Col. Koc. according to Nowy Swiat, was forced to resign and has accepted the subordinate post of Vice-Minister of Finance Also forced out of the Cabinet was Marjan Seyda, the only representative of the pre-war anti-Semitic National Democratic (Endek) party in the Angers Government. Seyda was a Minister Without Portfolio.
Dr. Strasburger was Undersecretary of State in the Commerce Ministry from 1918 to 1923 and Polish Commissioner in Danzig from 1924 to 1932.
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