New-York tribune., 1919-11-09
Injustice to Poles
Declared a Menace
To Worlds Peace
Leaders of Nation Charge
Restrictions on Country
We're Inspired by Ger
many; Pogroms Denied

The peace Of Europe Is menaced by
injustices done to Poland by the Allies
according to declarations made in ar
open letter to the Allied nations, signed
by Polish leaders, which was made
public here yesterday. Among the
sgners are the heads Of the Roman
Caholic, Armenian Catholic and Prot.
estant churches in Poland, the presi-
dents of universities In Warsaw, Cra-
cow, Posen and Lvov, the mayors of
these cities and the editors of twenty
three Polish papers.
The iniustices charged are enumer-
ated under ten headings. and, it is as
serted the Allied diplomats were
"treacherorsly' imposed upon by the
Germans. "who conspired :uriously
against Poland by means of their owl.
agents as well as Jewish, Ukrainian
Bolshevik agents and others" The first
grievance mentioned is the establish
ment of the City of Danzig as a free
state, possession of the port being de-
clared indispensable to the develop
ment and expansion Of Poland"
Plebiscites Declared Unjust
The letter further protests against
the plebisctes ordered in the districts
OF O. sztyn, Allenstein. part # Kwidzyn
and especially in Upper Silesia. These
districts are declared to be essentially
and historically Polish. In regard to
Upper Silesia, it is charged that 8
plebiscite was ordered upon simple
demand of defeated Germany and ir
spite of the fact that possession Of the
dlstrict "is sine qua non condition
of poland's economic development"
Respecting the widely published
stories of Jewish pogroms, the letter
limits its argument "to exemplifying
two most salient facts" 1t declares
after the liberation of Wilma the Ger.
man press spread reports of q pogron
IN the city in which 1000 Jews were
massacred. An American CORE esponden'
is quoted as having reported after a
thorough investigation he found the
story baseless and to have originated
with the German wireless station in
K0nigsberg.
The second instance mentioned is
that of the famous Lemberg pogrom
which the Jews have represented be.
tore the public opinion Of the world
as a slaughter of innocent crowds" In
this case it is charged the only Jews
killed were. according to the officia dcatt
registers of the Jews, thirty-four il
rumber and that "it has been verified
that the Jews were armed and were
shooting at the Polish troops"
Polish Lives Held LightIy
The letter continues:
"The blood of thousands Of Poles
murdered by the Ukrainians in Galicla
seems to have weighed very lightly or
the scale of the peace conference, con
stituted as q great court of justice
But the b God of thirty-fcur Jews in
Lemberg has weighed so heavily or
he other scale that forgetting all the
blood shed by the Christians, the peace
conference went so far as to impose
certain limitations upon the sovereign
y of the Polish state creating a com
mission of international control or the
ecurity of the Jews in Poland"
After dec airing anything that is pref
JUDICIAL to Poland is triumph fol
Germany "and increases her power te
be used in worlds war to come" the
letter conc'udes:
"And this is why, while expressing
10 the Allied nations our deepest an1
eternal gratitude for the help they gave
US in reconstructing the Polish state
We are bound to affirm in this solemn
moment before the wor' and before
/ history that as log as full justice i.
not granted to us and as long as full
amends are not done for our wrongs
;he basis Of European peace will no
be such as it should be--neither secure
nor durable"