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Polish Diplomat Booed and Applauded at Memorial Meeting for Warsaw Gretto Heroes

April 20, 1947
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The fourth anniversary of the uprising of the ## in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19,1943, was observed here last night at a memorial ?eting arranged by the American Jewish Congress in Manhattan Center. Dr. Julius ##tz-Suchy, secretary general of the Polish delegation to the United Nations and cunsellor of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was one of the principal peakers, was booed by some members of the audience and cheered by others when he #serted that the 40,000 Warsaw Jews who died in the ghetto battle, perished “in fight for Poland’s freedom and independence.”Dr. Katz-Suchy also read a message from Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish delegate to the United Nations, stating that “the new Poland knows her indebtedness to the ##ghters of the ghettos” and that Jews are treated in Poland as equal citizens.Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, and Rabbi ?rving Miller, chairman of its executive committee, devoted the greater part of their addresses to condemning the execution of four Jewish youths in Palestine this week. They termed the executions “judicial murder” and said that they were ordered ## London in the hope of provoking ## in Palestine just when the United Nations is about to take up the Palestine issue.

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