The anti-Semitic Polish weekly Jestem Poliakem failed to appear yesterday, its regular publication day. The editors denied the paper was officially suppressed and attributed the non-appearance to difficulty in obtaining newsprint.
It is believed Jestem Poliakem will not appear by agreement until the uproar over its extremist articles has subsided. It is reported that Rajek, former editor of the weekly, who is now editor of the monthly Mysl Polska, was advised by the Polish Government to cut out anti-Semitism. It is believed that Polish Premier Wladislas Sikorski, fearing the unfavorable impression Jestem Poliakem was creating in the United States, participated in the Polish Government’s intervention.
Meanwhile, The Catholic Herald, under the double-column headline, “Catholic Polish Paper Does Not Get Fair Hearing,” defended Jestem Poliakem as “an independent Polish paper edited by Polish Catholics.”
The Herald printed a letter from the editors of Jestem Poliakem, giving no names, in reply to the News-Chronicle’s attack on the Polish paper on April 7. The News-Chronicle had refused to publish the reply.
The letter, after affirming the editors’ attachment to Christian principles and unreserved hostility to Nazism and Nazi pogroms, declared: “None can deny the existence of a Jewish problem in the world, and in Poland in particular. It is our aim to solve the problem in accordance with Christian ethics and without any form of violence.”
The Herald is the only newspaper so far to defend Jestem Poliakem.
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