Following the announcement that the Anti-Hitler Committee in Poland might be officially liquidated, the most prominent Polish Jewish merchants organized a Jewish League for the Protection of Polish Products, it was learned here today.
An outline of the set-up of the new organization, whose declared purpose it is to boost the sale of Polish-made products in place of goods coming in from other countries, was forwarded today to the authorities for official approval.
The announcement that the Anti-Hitler Committee might be officially dissolved was made yesterday, together with a declaration from an official source that further activity of the Committee might endanger Poland’s diplomatic relations with Germany.
WARN OF PROSECUTION
Members of the Committee were at the same time warned that resumption of their boycott activities against Germany would entail legal prosecution.
Actually the Anti-Hitler Boycott Committee in Warsaw has been suppressed since June 19, when the police suddenly raided the headquarters of the organization, seized its records and confiscated the lists of its members throughout the country. The boycott offices were sealed, and the leaders were warned against continuing with their boycott against goods made in Nazi Germany.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Tuesday that it had learned from authoritative sources that suppression of the Anti-Hitler Boycott Committee in Poland was one of the conditions made by the German representatives in the negotiations for a renewal of the German-Polish trade agreement.
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