Warsaw Anti-semitic Campaign is Denounced from Floor of Congress

Two members of Congress took the House floor today to join the worldwide protest against the anti-Semitic campaign initiated by the Communist regime in Poland. Rep. Edward J. Derwinski, an Illinois Republican of Polish descent, charged that the regime had resorted to anti-Semitism in an attempt to discredit and silence legitimate protest. He expressed the belief that the Polish people would see through the “shabby propaganda” of the “Stalinism maintained by the Polish puppet government that has adapted itself to Moscow’s anti-Jewish and anti-Israel line.”

Both the Illinois representative and Rep. Seymour Halpern, N.Y. Republican, drew attention to the irony of the coincidence of the anti-Semitic campaign and the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Rep. Halpern said it would be “hypocrisy and a vulgar mockery” if the Polish Ambassador here addressed meetings memorializing the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto. He termed the Warsaw campaign “abhorrently reminiscent of Nazism.”