Anti-Semitic forces in the Sejm welcomed today a new recruit in the person of popular General Luc jan Zoligowski, who signalized his enlistment with a bitter anti-Jewish address in which he alleged the Jews were Bolsheviks seeking to ruin both Poland and Russia.
Boguslaw Miedzinski, vice-president of the lower Parliamentary house, preceded the general with a speech on his new party, which he described as anti-Semitic.
Replying to both speakers, Jewish Deputy Emil Sommerstein pointed out that Jews lived in Poland even before the Polish adoption of Christianity. He appealed to the Government to prevent anti-Jewish excesses which, he said, were the beginning of a general anarchy.
The authorities today released all members of the outlawed anti-Semitic National Radical Party held in the Government concentration camp at Kartuz-Bereza.
Eight Jewish students were badly beaten last night in renewed Nationalist attacks at Warsaw University.
Wilno University Jewish students, boycotting laboratories in protest against segregation were warned they would lose credit for a year’s study if they failed to attend.
Cracow University authorities approved the “aryan paragraph” contained in the by-laws of the Law Students’ Union, the university’s largest student body.
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