Polish Statesman Assails University Terrorism; Emigration Issue Raised Again

An attack on “brutal” political agitation in Polish universities was launched by ex-Premier Casimir Bartel in the Senate last night. Lwow University, where Senator Bartel is a professor, has such a low scholastic level, he said, that the students cannot even identify historic figures such as Raymond Poincare, world-war president of France.

Riots are frequent, and students sometimes kill one another, the Senator charged. Taking advantage of the universities’ extra-territorial status, undergraduates indulge in anti-national demonstrations. Bartel charged that the academic authorities remain passive, and urged the abolition of extra-territorial privileges.

For the second time within a week, the Sejm yesterday heard demands for intensification of Jewish emigration from Poland on a mass scale, elimination of Jews from Polish industry, commerce and the liberal professions. They were voiced by Col. Wenda, a leader of the Government Camp of National Unity.

Denying adherence to racial theories and disavowing threats of violence, Col. Wenda declared the Camp regarded Jews as “culturally alien and economically harmful elements.” His sentiments were echoed by Deputy Dudzinski, notorious anti-Semite, who recommended that Jews be forced into labor battalions to drain swamps and build roads as preparation for emigration.

Replying, Deputy Jacob Trockenheim declared Col. Wenda’s speech merely formulated in sharper terms the Camp’s known anti-Jewish program, which Jews regarded as an attack against the fundamental rights of the Polish Jewish population. He said that Polish Jewry would defend itself against this attack and continue to cooperate with other sections of the population for the benefit of the Polish State.