The State Department, it was believed today, will issue on Monday a formal statement on the situation in Poland based on reports from the American consular office in Warsaw and reports from neutral countries to which refugees from Poland have fled.
Department officials were deluged with inquiries concerning Nazi atrocities in Poland as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency following mention of a blackout of information from Poland in General Hugh S. Johnson’s syndicated column yesterday.
The Department’s attitude, it was learned, is likely to be that while reports of these atrocities have been received from European diplomatic outposts, few if any of the accounts have come from “unprejudiced sources.”
The State Department has often pointed out, in reply to requests for confirmation of reports of atrocities which have seeped out through the Nazi censorship, that it has only one consular representative in Poland, who is in Warsaw and cannot leave that city for other parts of Poland. It is believed that the Department would regard as coming from a “prejudiced source” any information not personally vouched for by the consul.
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