A resolution calling the Jews “alien to the Polish people and injurious to the economic life of Poland” was adopted at an all-Polish congress of peasant youth held under the patronage of Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, virtual dictator of Poland.
The resolution said:
“While condemning all acts of violence, which harm the spirit of the Polish people, we state that in the overcrowded Polish State emigration must be the first concern of the Jewish masses as an element which is alien to the Polish people and injurious to the economic life of Poland.”
The resolution, however, expressed a wish for friendship with the Slavic minorities in Poland.
A conference of the Warsaw district branch of the Union of Polish Physicians, attended by 300 delegates, rejected by a large majority a proposal to introduce the “Aryan paragraph” barring Jews as members. Fifteen anti-Semitic Nationalists walked out in protest, shouting, “You are Jewish!”
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