Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-09
HUNS PROPAGANDA
STILL BEING S0WN
Now Trying to Influence
Peace Negotiations, Of
ficiaIs Believe.
SEEKS TO SPLIT ALLIES


Though the war is over, SO far 40
fighting is concerned, German propa-
ganda goes merrily on. Indeed. with
the relaxation on censorship. both
here and abroad, there Is a growing
belief that German paper fighting"
is becoming more persistent than ever
before, in the hope Of influencing
peace negotiations.
Government officials in Washing
ton, as we'll as diplomatic offices,
daily are encountering new evidences
that the propaganda machine Fe-
spends to no armistice.
Object Of Their Work.
Hun publicists are seeking to irri-
tate England with unfounded stories
concerning alleged American Jealousy
of British supremacy of the seas:
they are intoxicating in France fear
that a league Of nations means ira
ternity with themselves. and for this
purpose they do not even stop at
proclaiming the fundamental differ
ences of thought between France and
Germany; they are busily engaged in
and the newly founded Jugo-Slav states.
But one of their activities which Is
most attention just now Is tho
effort they are making TO block the
plan of an Independent Poland which
shall include the Polish peoples now
under German and Austrian domina-
tion.
Especially among Polish represent
atives in Washington, it Is asserted,
that the Germans are making special
IL
face a difficult problem, in view or
the fact that President Wilson has
been specific and definite about an In
dependent Poland. The thirteenth OF
his fourteen peace principles states:
President for Free Poland.
"An independent Polish state should
be erected which should include the
territories inhabited by indisputably
Polish population, which should be
assured a free and secure access TO
the sea, and whose political and eco
nomic independence and territorial In
tegrity should be guaranteed Dy inter-
national covenant"
According to members of the Polish
national department. located in
Washington, stories OF recent po-
groms, which the Poles hold not to
have been authentic in the first place.
have been magnified and are being
ish national aspirations.
Briefly, the Polish contention re-
garding the Jewish question is that
Poland has always accorded the Jew
which were denied him in Germany
and Russia. but also has granted
social equality beyond that In most
European countries and even In some
parts of the United States. It was
! stated that Jews are received freely
in every club in Warsaw. and that no
determinations against him have ex-
listed until recent years.
Owing to oppressive conditions in
Germany and Russia, suQh as those in
the latter country which followed the
Kichnieff massacre. large numbers OF
Jews from both countries went TO
these countries because of the equel-
ity of treatment accorded them.
Influx Causes Resentment.
According to the Poles this influx
caused resentment on economic
grounds, rather than on religious
ones, and it is held that the Jews In
Warsaw, where thousands OF Russian
and German Jews took up their abode.
began to discriminate against the new
corners.
Proof is held to exist that Germany
has taken every measure to prevent
the return of the Jews who left the
empire. fOT SAdilplO tHSAC 40 q NAo
pa tch from the European bureau of the
Christian Science Monitor. printed No
yember 80, which stated that a Jewish
mass meeting in Berlin had passed
resolutions demanding abolition of all
restrictions regarding German Jews.
but further demanding that the from
tier be closed against Polish Jews.
To inquire into the pogroms a com
mission now is being formed. accord
ing to an announcement by John f.
Smulski, president of the national
Polish department, which shall go TO
Poland to report on exact conditions
there. Three Poles are to be on this
commission. three Jews. and it is
hoped to get the government to add
three independent representatives.
| The suggestion of the joint com
! mission originated at a meeting OF
the national Polish department., and
| the Polish national defense commit
tee. in New York, recently. in con-
nection with representatives OF ma
tional Jewish organizations.
, Previously, Julian Mack, chairman
! of the Zionist Organization OF Amer
| lea, and Louis Marshall, chairman o,
| the American Jewish committee, had
addressed the allied governments and
| the government of the United States
asking assistance for the Jews. and
stating, in part:
Claims to Be Recognized.
| eve ask that the government make
| clear that the claims of only such ma
| tions will be recognized which, by
the treatment Of national minprittes.
prove worthy of political national
This appeal. from such highly &C
credited representatives of Jews In
| this country, without doubt will be
! needed by representatives OF this gov
ernment and associated nations at the
neace conferences. But the Polish
representatives here believe that the
! Investigations of the joint commits
sion win demonstrate that systepa-
/ tized persecution Of Jews by Poles
i does not exist: that accounts OF DO
groms will be found to be greatly ex-
apgerated, and that troubles, which
are admitted to take place. especially
| those following the recent fighting
with Ruthenians, were due entirely to
other causes than religious pecsecu-
| tions.
It is held that some German Jews.
like other refugees from Germany.
have been active sympathizers with
Germany. and 1t was toward them
that some demonstrations were di-
rected.
Poland's need. ono writer states, 10
| the help Of some thousands Of allied
troops, to enable her to set about
building a new regime.
|