Poland cannot afford to alienate the sympathies of America by yielding to “the barbarous agitation of anti-Semitism,” according to an editorial published today in the New York American and 15 other Hearst newspapers throughout the country.
Recalling the aid of the United States in establishing the Polish Republic, the editorial said: “That the Polish people, so recently persecuted, should now turn persecutors themselves is one of the incredible phenomena of our times…”
“We cannot believe that any responsible Polish statesman or any responsible Polish political party will follow such a fatal path,” the editorial said. “The precarious position of the Republic makes its own survival dependent on the sympathy of the world.”
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