For the second time in recent weeks, the Polish Senate held a debate yesterday on current Jewish issues. Several senators charged that Jewish students themselves were guilty in the university rioting, Count Radziwill declaring that “Poland cannot sit with Jews smelling of garlic.”
Senator Malinowsky alone defended the Jews, placing blame for the riots at the door of some university rectors, whose removal he demanded.
Warsaw University announced the dismissal of Joseph Reichman, a lecturer, for having written an article in a Polish Progressive newspaper in which he condemned the anti-Jewish rioting at the university.
The action was based on a new ordinance by the Ministry of Education, permitting disciplinary punishment against university lecturers, including reprimands and withdrawal of university titles.
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