Polish-Jewish circles here were disturbed over a report, which could not be confirmed, that Col. Adam Koc, the founder of the Anti-Semitic Camp of National Unity in pre-war Poland, which proclaimed that Jews were “third-class citizens,” may shortly be appointed by the Polish Ministry of Finance as head of its American office for Post-War Reconstruction of Poland. Col. Koc, who is now in New York, was forced to resign early in 1940 from his post as Minister of Finance in the Polish Cabinet-in-exile in Paris.
Polish military authorities here today announced that four Polish Jews were killed in the Tobruk fighting in which Polish troops participated. They were buried at a military cemetery and their graves were marked with Mogen Davids, the announcement said. The loyalty of the Polish Jews is emphasized in a book “Outline of Polish History” published here today, by Prof. O. Gorka, head of the national minorities department of the Polish Ministry of Information. The Polish historian points out that the Jews of Poland “have fulfilled their obligations from the very first day of the outbreak of the war.”
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