Haint, Yiddish daily, was confiscated today for having published a feuilleton headed “Enter Haman.” Government officials on the alert to guard Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goering evidently took the “Haman” to be a direct reference to the man of many uniforms.
General Goering, allegedly visiting Poland for the pleasures of the chase, is guarded in a manner that has no precedent in Poland. The entire press has been gagged and forbidden to chronicle his visit. No interviews are allowed and an enormous guard, including German secret service men, surrounds him all the time.
PRUSSIAN SEES BECK
Although General Goering is here in an unofficial capacity and is to hunt on the estate of President Ignace Moscicki, he has already seen Foreign Minister Colonel Jozef Beck, the head of the Polish army air force, and other prominent military and civil officials.
The General’s visit, it is said in usually well-informed circles, is to bind the two nations closely together both in a military and a political sense and also to arrange a secret personal conference between the aged Polish dictator Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, and Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler.
When General Goering arrived yesterday, he was greeted by the German Ambassador and proceeded to the German embassy behind a heavy escort of police, troops and secret service men.
When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels paid a visit to Warsaw last July, Yiddish newspapers were frequently confiscated for attacking him. The Yiddish papers appeared frequently with gaping holes in their pages, where censors at the last minute had
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