The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-02
PADEREWSKI SEEKS
A POGROM PROBE
Asks Wilson for L. s. Com
mission. to Visit Poland
and Get the Truth.
LIBERTY GIVEN TO JEWS
Premier Denies Reports Sent
to New York-Bolsheviki
Unspeakably Wicked.
By the Associates Press.


PARIS, June 1.-Ignace Jan Paderew.
ski. the Polish Premier, made It known
to-day that he had decided to ask Presl-
dent Wilson to name a commission OF
Americans to go to Poland and investi-
gate the charges regarding the treat
ment of the Jewish population there
The Premler's intention was revealed
in the making public Of letter which
he has written to Herbert c. Hoover,
head of the Allied Food Relief Commits
sion.
II 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 pro-
test against the treatment of the Jews"
the Polish Premier's letter reads. THE
misstatement, through which that meet
ing was Influenced have affected me
profoundly, and as l and my colleagues
in the Polish Government have nothing
to conceal 1 have decided to request
the President TO APPOINT an American
commission to visit Poland and investi-
gate. If it finds any case OF transgres-
sion of the law where Justice has not
been done the Polish Government will
undertake to administer it vigorously.
Isolated by Enemy Territory.
Poland is absolutely cut off from the
world by enemy territory, SO the world
knows little Of eastern Europe or its cur
rent events except rumors affected by
enemy coloring. 1 can unhesitatingly
state that the events as represented in
the New York meeting have not oc-
Cured. There are in Poland Ministers
of great Observation-Disclosures Brit
ish and French. Have any of them ever
reported such events to their Sipvern-
ments, or have they ever asked a single
question regarding them of the Polish
Government officials who see them daily
Not to my knowledge.
The world little understands that the
Jews of Poland. ground for generations
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 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 meet
ing the dangers imperilling the new
republic
You yourself know that in the
gigantic problem of feeding $4,000, O00
people, 10 or IA per cent OF whom are
Jews. the latter had equal consideration
with the other elements OF the popula
| ton.
Russian Empire has created in them es-
pecially that fertile field from which
| Bolshevism has sprung. 1t is a melan-
choly fact that among the leaders and
the intelligence of that destructive
| movement are to-day many chosen from
| these oppressed Russian Jews. 1t is the
penalty eastern Europe Is paying for
| the mistreatment of Jews in Russia in
| the past.
Bolsheviki Are Barba rous.
Poland to-day is the outpost in the
defence OF Nlrope and the world from
the Bolshevik armies and their unspeak-
| able wickedness and barbarity. Our
| sons are dying at this very hour to hold
| this thin barrier, now hundreds of miles
| long In this fighting area Jews, Poles
| Russians, Lthuanians White Ruthe-
| mans and Ukranians have suffered ter
rlpiy, out the TACT or Jews being Killed
in the ranks of the Red army does not
justify charges of Jewish persecution.
II call attention to the event of Wilma
Our army captured the whole of the
General Staff Of the Bolshevik army .op.
Grating in that territory Almost all OF
them were Jews. Some of these were
| tried and convicted of unspeakable bar.
| barity and have been punished. Have
not the leaders and the propagandists Of
Bolshevism published this incident as
pogrom? Furthermore. how many Oh
these stories are there that have no
come through German hands?
II consider it of vital necessity tha'
these accusations should be wiped ou
by the unbiased testimony Of Just men
and therefore sincerely hope that tn,
| President, as the supreme arbiter OF
humanity and Justice. will grant us the
favor Of appointing the committee FOL
which ! ask"