New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Polish Premier Says He
Will Ask Wilson to Name
Commission to Study
Situation and Report
Says Jews Have Liberty
Deeply Impressed by Big
Meeting Here; Threatens
to Punish Any Offenders

PARIS, June 1 (By The Associated
Press) ).-Ignace Jan Paderewski, the
Polish Premier, made it known to-day
that he had decided to ask President
Wilson to name commission of
Americans to go to Poland and investi-
gate the charges regarding the treat
ment OF the Jewish population there.
The Premiers intention was revealed
in the making public OF a letter which
he has written to Herbert c. Hoover
head Of the Allied Food Relief Com
mission.
81 have been considering our discus
sion on the position of the Jews in
Poland, and particularly the action of
the recent meeting in New York in
protest against the treatment of the
Jews" the Polish Premier's letter
reads. "The misstatements through
which that meeting was Influenced have
affected me profoundly and as l and
my colleagues in the Polish govern
ment have nothing to conceal l have
decided to request the President to
appoint an American commission to
visit Poland and investigate. If it
finds any case of transgression Of the
law where justice has not been done
the Polish government will undertake
to administer it vigorously
Poland Cut OF
"Poland is absolutely cut off from
the world by enemy territory, 80 the
world knows little of Eastern Europe
or Its current events except rumors
affected by enemy coloring l can un-
hesitatingly state that the events as
represented in the New York meeting
have not occurred. There are in Po-
land ministers Of great governments
American, British and French. Have
any OF them ever reported such events
to their governments, or have thew
ever asked single question regarding
them OF the Polish government officials
VINO see them daily. Not to my knowl-
edge.
The world little understands that
the Jews of Poland. ground for gen
crations under the heel of our common
oppressor, are in considerable part a
people Of misery, but that this misery
Is not the creation of the five months
old republic. New Poland has given
the jew every liberty of the Gentle
All to-day Sit in the Congress together:
all are devoted to the solution of the
problems and meeting the dangers i'm
perllling the new republic.
~ ou yourself know that in the p,-
gantlc problem of feeding $4,000 600
people, 13 or ID per cent of whom Gro
Jews, the latter had equal considera-
ton with the other elements of the
population.'
THE misery of the Jews in tho old
I,oc
especially that fertile field from
"h'cn bo'shevlsm has sprung. 1t is
melancholy fact that among the lead
,ers and the intelligence of that do
stfuctlve movement arc TODAY MANY
CHOSEN from these oppressed Russian
Jews 1T Is the penalty eastern Eu
rope is paying for the mistrcatment
OF Jews in Russia in the past.
roland to-day is the outpost in the
defence of Europe and the world from
the Bolshevik armies and their nm
speakable wickedness and barbaritv
Our sons are dying at this very hour
TO mold this thin barrier, now hundreds
OF mules long. In this fighting area
Jews, Poles, Russians, Lithuanians
suffered terribly, but the fact of Jews
being killed in the ranks of .he Red
army does not justify charges Of Jew
ish persecution.
II call attention to the event Of
Nllna. Our army captured the whole
OF the general staff of the Bolshevik
army operating in that territory. AL
most all of them were Jews. Some Of
these we're tried and convicted of un-
speakable barbarty and have been
punished Have not the leaders and
the propagandists of Bo1shevism pub
llshcd this incident as pogrom?
ore how many of these stor-
les are there that have not come
German hands?
i consider it of vital necessity that
these accusations should be wiped out
by the unbiased testimony Of just mon,
and therefore sincerely hope that the
President, rs the supreme arbiter of
humanity and justice, will grant us
the favor of appointing the committee
for which | ask"