A blast against forces of conservatism and ordinary troublemakers” for attempting to use Jews as the scapegoat for failures in Polish life was broadcast on Radio Warsaw, heard here. The announcer was quoting the Warsaw weekly “Po Prostu.”
The article declared that local tyrants of Aryan origin had used anti-Semitism to “obtain full absolution” of errors they had committed. It warned that elements abroad hostile to Poland’s regime would not fail to exploit anti-Jewish excesses to blacken the Polish revolution. It admitted that there had been such anti-Semitism in recent months.
In a warning to the Polish people against accepting the arguments of anti-Semites, the article declared that “such a program is not only anti-humanist but also anti-nationalist in character. This organized action by the forces of retrogression calls for an organized rebuff,” it said. However, it also warned against Jewish officials who attempted to escape responsibility for their mistakes by attributing justified criticism” of them to anti-Semitism persecution.
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