A huge demonstration has been arranged for tonight by the pro-government associations of war veterans and war wounded, to celebrate as the call for the meeting expresses it, “Poland’s freedom from international control as the last step to Polish independence.” The demonstrators are to gather on Pilsudski Square.
Gazeta Polska, official organ of the Polish government, praised Colonel Beck in the highest terms, declaring: “Poland has definitely cast off for good all humiliations as compared with other states.”
Kurier Poranny, a pro-government paper, asks why minority obligations are not imposed on the Soviet Union, which is now seeking to enter the League of Nations.
The anti-government and the Endek anti-Semitic papers, on the other hand, display little enthusiasm.
Kurier Warszawsky features a report from Geneva saying that League circles judge Colonel Beck’s speech in the negative, since Poland has obvious advantages to gain from infringement of the Versailles Treaty.
Iskra, semi-official Polish news agency, declares that “since 1926 Poland has shown herself well able to counteract racial persecution.”
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