Foreign News: Under the Jackboots II

Thirty Polish Jews went AWOL in Britain two weeks ago to escape the "virulent antiSemitism" of the Polish Army. Specifically, they said that Polish officers called Hitler the saviour of Europe for exterminating the Jews. Seeking transfer to British units as 200 others had successfully done last month, they were arrested, charged with desertion.

After hot debate in the House of Commons, Laborite J. D. Mack summed up: "The matter is much more deep-rooted than is admitted. Poland's record of anti-Semitism is one of the world's worst. Orders of the Polish Government are...

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