The anti-Jewish campaign in Poland appears to be reaching the level of a state policy which has brought suicides and a general purge. Flora Lewis, Newsday correspondent in Paris reported from sources she described as trustworthy “beyond any question.”
Asserting that developments have gone far beyond what has been reported in the western press, she wrote also that the new policy, rivaling communism as the approved ideology, included use of a new term, “de-judification” and included rehabilitation of at least some elements of pre-war Polish fascism. She also reported she had been informed that one party official had been expelled for “pressing too hard” — he had urged at a party meeting that the remaining Jews in Poland he herded into ghettoes. Another party member was expelled for quite another reason, Miss Lewis rejected. She had said that it shamed her, as a Pole, to hear another party member remark that it was too bad Hitler had failed to gas all the Jews.
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