POLAND: Vodka Pogrom

If Jan Grotkowski had not had too much vodka Saturday night before last he would still be alive, 300 citizens would be uninjured; the Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue would not have been bombed; and members of the Polish Tank Corps might have had their usual furlough last week.

Jan Grotkowski with a party of friends celebrated the end of a week's work at the University of Lwow (pronounced Lvoof) by getting a skinful of vodka at a local Café. Into the same Café came four self-assured young Jews: M. Katz, S. Keller, N. Schmer, and...

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