Tense Situation Continues in Poland: Week After Reopening of Universities Outward Calm Prevails but

The situation, a week after the reopening of the Universities (with the exception of Vilna University, which the authorities do not yet consider it safe to reopen) continues to be tense, and though outwardly everything is quiet, the Jewish and the National Democratic students stand ranged inhostile camps, the Jews alert for fresh trouble, which the attitude of the National Democratic students seems to threaten. Notices bearing the inscription “No Jews admitted” have been posted up over the entrances to the general Students’ Homes and students’ kitchens, whose administrations are dominated by the National Democrats.

The Directors of the secondary schools all over the country have issued orders strictly prohibiting their pupils from attending any kind of meetings, and in many towns the prohibition against pupils being out in the streets after five o’clock in the evening still remains in force.

Attacks on Jews have now completely ceased in the streets of Warsaw, but isolated cases still occur in the provincial towns, although there, too, the authorities have been very prompt in putting them down.

Jewish opinion is divided as to the reason for the stoppage of the acts of violence. In some quarters it is attributed to the determined measures taken by the Government, buy others are inclined to discount the value of the Government action, and see the reason rather in the fact that the National Democrats are concentrating all their efforts on the boycott campaign to the exclusion of actual violence.

There is also a division in Jewish opinion as to the efficacy of the boyoott agitation. One section of the Jewish press regards it as a serious menace, and predicts that it will bring about the complete ruination of Jewish economic life, while other Jewish papers dismiss it as child’s play. which does not even deserve so much attention from the Jewish side as to require the organisation of a counter-activity.

In the present time of economic crisis, they claim, boycott proclamations cut no ice. People cannot afford such luxuries as refusing to buy better goods more cheaply because they happen to be offered by Jews. The real menace to Jewish economic life, they say, continues to be the unabated policy of Etatism, or State monopoly and the crushing burden of taxation.

The “Nasz Przeglad”, the Jewish Polish-language daily in Warsaw, welcomes the manifesto issued to the Jewish population by the Club of Jewish Deputies (given in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 28th. inst.) which, it says, expresses the real view of the Jewish population on the recent occurrences, and wipes out everything which has been said on the subject till now, both inside the country and abroad.