An upsurge of Virulent anti-Semitism” throughout Poland, both among the population and in the Polish Communist party, has become a “nightmare” to the Communists who led the October revolt against Moscow control, the New York Times reported today in a dispatch from Warsaw.
The dispatch reported that party members at meetings choosing candidates for the January 20 parliamentary elections shouted. We do not want any Jewish candidates. It also reported that the Revolutionary Students Council of Wroclaw Breslau) University, a Communist organization, demanded the expulsion of all Jewish students from the university, according to the dispatch. Faculty members blocked any such action with the threat of a walkout, the cable said.
The report indicated that the main section of the Polish Communist party to still Stalinist and that it has adopted anti-Semitism to compete with the anti-Semitic Communist nationalists for popular support. Many Jews have withdrawn their children from public schools, fearing physical harm, the dispatch added, and many of the surviving 45,000 to 75,000 Polish Jews are migrating.
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