Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1919-06-30
List 0tWa1y do ,. Nathana Straussa
An Open LsttsTfo Mr. Nathan Strauss.

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taczamy go ponizej W ca}oSci:
MIR. Nathan Strauss,
Honorary Chairman, Commit
tee for the Protection of Jewish
Rights in Poland and Eastern
European Countries.
Sir:
The American Press of May
21st published an advertisement
over your signature in which you
state hat Jews are being slaught
cred in Poland, that pogrom are
raging from Lemberg to Wilno
and from Warsaw to Pinsk, and
that the Jewish people never had
been set upon by an enemy more
merciless, more brutal, more de-
termined, or more powerful.
On the same day, you opened a
mass-meeting in Madison Square
Garden and, after having assured
the large audience that Jews are
massacred in Poland, you assum-
I'd the role of a prophet and said
in regard to Poland as follows:
Il predict. as it has been in the
past, It will be in the future. that
nations which permit persecution
Of the lew will themselves come
to an ignominious end, and the
quicker that happens the better
you and | will be pleased"
These statement combined with
the amazing demonstrations as
held in this and other cities con-
stitute a most offensive provoca-
ton OF the Polish people. 1t requi
res the full self-control of every
Pole not to give vent to Just ind1-
gnation and to be able to view
this matter calmly. I confess that
I eel ayerse to discuss the merits
Of this issue or 10 attempt to dis
claim the Misrepresentation as
contained in your charges against
Poland. But l shall say that the
data" and .proofs" that were
submitted by you and your fol-
lowers, even if they possibly be
correct in minor details, are, if
taken as a whole and presented
as you chose to do it, a rank dis
tortion o fthe truth, a distortion
more malicious, more dangerous
and more liable to mislead than
any overt libel or SANDER could
possibly be. The American law
requires in the pettiest of trials
for dollars and cents that witness
ses speak 1.-The truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
Are you sure to have lived up to
this elementary requirement Of
law and equity in a case of such
momentous importance as the
matter at issue?
Should it really not be known
10 you that Poland has received
the Jews and granted them pro-
lection at a time when the rest OF
Europe was revealing in an orgy
of religious persecution, and that
the Jews have Jared exceedingly
well IN Poland? Then does it not
give you food for thought that if
there was really spreading now in
Poland an anti-Jewish sentiment,
there must be some reasons for
this changer Wouldn't you be viii
ling to admit that there might be
Just a little, tiny bit of guilt on
the part Of certain Jewish factions
IN Poland1
Did vour investigators never