In two cases, in widely separated parts of Poland, Polish Courts today ruled that anti-Semitism is not a crime. In each case the anti-Semites were freed.
In Poznan, near the German border, a court acquitted the editor of a scurrilous anti-Semitic sheet, Wielka Polska, whom the government prosecutor accused of inciting the Polish population to attack and kill Jews.
A Wilno court also acquitted three Polish Nazi leaders, although one of them openly admitted incitement against the Jews. The three men left the court room after giving the Hitler salute.
At the same time, the Warsaw Lawyers’ Association unanimously adopted a resolution condemning in strongest terms the anti-Semitic Polish lawyer, Nowodoworski, for issuing an appeal to the public to boycott Jewish attorneys.
As president of the National Democratic Union of Lawyers, Nowodoworski issued a circular urging a boycott of Polish Jewish attorneys and calling upon Polish institutions to dismiss Jewish lawyers,. He threatened to “expose” in the Gazeta Warszawska, Endek organ, all those who retained Jewish advocates. He was formerly the president of the Warsaw bar.
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