Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-02
|pADEREWSKI DENIES
! CRUELT|ES TO JEWS
Would Have Wilson Investigate.
Admits Jewish Bolshevists
81 Were Killed
APPEAL SENT TO HOOVER

t'oris. June Z.-iRnace Jan Iadcr-
ewski, the Polish premier. has made II
known that he has decided TO ask Presi
dent Wilson TO name commission of
Americans 10 go to Poland and investi
gate the charges regarding the treatment
Of the Jewish population there.
The premicr's intention was revealed
In the making public OF letter which
he has written TO Herbert G.. Hoover,
head of the Allied food relief commits
q sion
II have been considering our discus
glsi0n on the position of the Jews in Po-
s land. and particularly the action of the
recent meeting in New York in protest
against the treatment of the Jews" the
Polish prentjer's letter reads.
Misstatements Alleged
."The misstatements through which
fdat meeting was influenced have af-
fected me profoundly, and as I and my
npfeagues in the Polish Government
Iftvc nothing tu conceal. ] have decided
to xc1uest tlc President to appoint an
AnleSican commission to visit Poland
and Investigate. If it finds any case of
trapsg,nssio tf the law where justice
has not l,een dNnc the Polish Govern
ment wifi undertake to administer it
vigorously.
POLAND is absolutely cut -off from the
world bv enemy te sritory. SO the world
knows iittNc of eastern Europe or its
3 current events except rumors affected by
enemy color,Sg. ] can ur1hesitatingly
state that the events as represented in
thc New York meeting have not oc-
Cured. There are in Poland ministers
Of great governm, ,uts-Ameriran Brit.
< ish and French INve any of them ever
rcported such events to their govern
mente or have they .HSked sillghr ques-
tion regarding them NJ the Polish Gov
ernment officials who see them daily!
Not to my knowledge.
Polish Jews Long Oppressed
''The world little understands that
the Jews os Poland. ground for genera
tious under She heel of our common op-
fpressor, arc in considerable part II peo-
ple Of misery, but that this misery is not
4 the creation of the five months q ut re-
public. New Poland has given the Jew
every liberty of the gentle. AL today
sit in the congress together. MI are
devoted to the solution of the problems
and meeting the dangers imperiling the
new republic.
s.Yeu Yourself know that in ttse gi-
Il eputic prollem of feeding 23.009.OOO
ncopJe. IL or II per cent of whom arc
Jews, the latter had equal considera
tion with the other elements OF the
..The misery Of the Jews in the old
Russian empire has created in them
csnecieIly that fertile field from which
v holsheyism has sprung. 1t is a melan
e,.holy fact that among the leaders and
\ the intelligence of that destructive
movement are today many cAoscn from
these oppressed Russian Jews. 1t is
= The renalty eastern Europe u paying
81. ~ xset,o nf
in the past.
Charges Declared Uniustifie,l
hPoland today is the outpost IN thu
defense of Europe and the world from
the Bolshevist armies and their TN
speakable wickedness and barbarit> v
Our sons are dying this very hour I.
hold this thin barrier. now hundreds
Of miles long. In this fighting area
Jews. Poles, Russians. Iithuanians
White Ruthenians and Ukrainians have
suffered terribly, but the fact of Jews
being Killed in. the ranks of the rec
army does not justify charges of Jewish
persecution.
II call attention to the event o.
Wilma. Our army captured the whole o.
n fhc general staff of the Boishevist army
Grating in that territory. Almost al
them were Jews. Some of thes,
tried and convicted of unspeakabl,
barity and have been punished
s We not the leaders and the propa
fdists of Bolshevism published thi
ident AS pogrom? Furthermore
wv many of these stories are there tina
Ik Eve not come through German hands
II consider it of vital necessity tha
hese accusations should be wiped ON
y py the unbiased testimony of just men
i and, therefore, sincerely hope that tb,
IL PRESIDENT, ms the sIIprpme arb;ter n