A serious renewal of anti-Semitism in Poland has been reported here by Philip Ben, special correspondent in Warsaw of the newspaper Le Monde.
The correspondent says that a “purge” of Jews from government and major industrial jobs has been taking place. Cases of Jews fired from their positions are becoming more numerous, Mr. Ben writes, and Jews who lose their jobs as a result of the reduction of the bureaucratic machinery are “assured of not being able to find any other job.”
The Polish newspaper “Po Prostu,” Mr. Ben says, has reported that the director of the state trust which imports automobiles told the Communist Party secretary in the organization, a Jew, that “with a face like yours, comrade, you should not now occupy any public position.”
Le Monde’s correspondent writes that in the town of Walbrazych a mining center in Lower Silesia, a fight between the Jewish manager of a butcher shop and a drunkard, almost degenerated into a pogrom. Anti-Jewish demonstrations last several hours, he reports, and only the arrival of militia reinforcements from other localities made it possible to restore order.
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