Enactment of legislation outlawing anti-Semitic agitation, similar to that recently decreed by France, ws demanded today by Czarno Na Bialem (Black on White), organ of the democratic wing of former Pilsudski Legionaries.
The newspaper denounced the anti-Semitic terrorist campaign in Poland, declaring that it was pleasing only to the Nazi enemies of the nation.
“Just as in France,” an editorial in the paper asserted, “the situation her demand legal sanctions against chauvinist nationalist propaganda. What is a sin in France is, in our situation, a crime against the State. An end must be put to the activities of the Erfurt (Germany) agency her and also to any ideological or unideological symptoms of the anti-Semitic movement. The interests of the Republic demand imperatively the liquidation of propaganda manifestations against national minorities.” (The Erfurt Agency referred to is the Weltdienst-World Service- Nazi propaganda organization which supplies anti-Semitic material to groups throughout the world.)
Meanwhile, formation of a “League to Combat Anti-Semitism” has been announced by Prof. Mieczyslaw Michalowicz, noted physician, and other prominent liberals. The league’s statutes are expected shortly to receive official sanction of the Government.
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