Communications concerning the restitution of Jewish property can be sent to Poland without any fear that they will not be received by the addressees, Polish Under-Secretary of Justice M.S. Chajn said today.
Chajn, who is a member of a visiting delegation of Polish jurists, was asked whether it was true that letters concerning Jewish property were being stopped by the Polish censorship and never reached the addressees. He replied that although some such letters may have gone astray immediately after the liberation, when the postal system was disorganized, there is no difficulty now. He stressed that there was no censorship of incoming mail.
In reply to another question, S.M. Barcikowski, deputy leader of the Polish parliament, said that although all German citizens are being expelled from the portions of Germany ceded to Poland, German Jews may remain, if they agree to accept Polish citizenship. It is estimated that about 150 Jews are in the former German areas.
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