Polish Fascist Party to Admit Converted Jews, Bar Others

Baptized Jews and Poles of the Mosaic religion will be admitted to membership in Col. Adam Koc’s new Government party, the Camp for National Unity, which is modeled on authoritarian lines, it was announced today by ranking leader of the party, Col. Kowalewski.

“National” Jews, who comprise the majority of Poland’s 3,500,000 Jewish population, cannot be members, the same announcement said. The propaganda chief explained that Jews constitute a nationality. Poles, without distinction as to religion, origin or race, will be admitted to the party, he said.

The party is opposed to any anti-Jewish excesses, Col. Kowalewski declared, according to the Havas News Agency. Col. Koc’s party favored an “organic solution of the Jewish problem,” the spokesman said. The Jewish faith was not any obstacle to membership in the party, the fact that counts being the nationality and not the race or religion involved, Col. Kowalewski stated.

Creation of the new Government party was announced last Feb. 21. with a program providing the following: Upholding of the 1935 Constitution limiting Parliament’s powers and extending those of the President; holding the army and its leaders to be the country’s unifying forces; granting privileged position and special protection to the Catholic church; the Polish tradition of religious tolerance to be the foundation of the State’s relations with other creeds; outlawry of Communism as “foreign to Polish traditions,” since it was rejected on the battlefield in 1920; reservation to the Government of the right to regulate production in the interests of national defense; distribution of land to the peasants and settlement of the overpopulation problem by emigration of peasants to towns for employment in trade and industry.