Foreign Language Press Service

Polish Newspapers Warned against Incitements

Daily Jewish Courier, May 30, 1919

The inciting articles against Jews that the Polish newspapers in Chicago printed these last few days finally aroused the Polish leaders to warn their papers that they have gone too far.

Polish newspapers yesterday printed an appeal: "On the Jewish Question," by the Polish National Department.

In it, Polish leaders ask their landsmen to restrain themselves and refrain from holding any kind of demonstrations against Jews, especially on the Polish Decoration Day.

It states that the Polish government itself has the right to deal with 2[gap]3used in yesterday's issue a much modified anti-Semitic tone, explaining that Poland cannot be anti-Semitic, that relations between Jews and Poles in Poland must be regulated in the proper manner, but that this, "is being hindered by Zionists and Jewish Social-Democrats."

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