The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-02
Pogroms,R Reports Proto-
cols--Logic of Events

The Polish the Hungarian and Rou
manian press did not fail to make
capital of the reports. They publish
ed abstracts and excerpts of all the
expert testimony and accompanied
them with gleeful editorial comments.
The National Polish Committee OF
| America published all tile reports in
pamphlet form, presumably lin order
To bring about better understanding
| of the necessity for honest and con
structive effort in solving a problem
that is only made more difficult by
attacks and determinations" but in
reality to propagate anti-Semitic sell
timents on the strength of the reports
that 1.-The so-called pogroms reduced to
real proportions, of which there were
fewer victims than from automobile
casualties in New York during the
same period"
The reports offered excellent fer
tilizing material to fatten the anti
Semitic soil in England and America.
! The logical result was the publication
of the notorious Protocols in both
countries.
Messrs. Morgenthau, johnson.
| Wright and Rumbold will be shocked
at such an accusation. They will We
| hemently and indignantly deny that
they are guilty of sowing the seed of
anti-Semitism They will point to
many passages in their reports which
indicate sympathy for the Jews and
an honest and sincere desire that the
two races might live IN amity and
harmony. The fact, however, remains
| that these gentlemen have added their
quota to anti-Semitic literature. Sub
| sequent events have proven the error
Of their observations and the absurd
| Try of their conclusions More than
sixteen months have passed since the
two commissions visited Poland and
during that period not single meas
ure was taken by the Polish govern
ment towards approchment between
the two peoples. The 'excesses
multiplied and the brutalities increas-
! ed. Tho interpretations of the jew
ish members of the Seim Polish Par
liament supported by documentary
evidence of pogroms which have taXen
place and indignities perpetratsd. re
NAMED like voice calling in the
wilderness. Ani-Semitism runs riot
in Poland. The diplomats of two great
countries have made mess of their
missions.
Luckily. the American Commission
was not wholly composed of diplomats
Sir. Arthur l.. GoOdhart was attached
to the commission in the capacity of
counsel. During the three months
which the commission spent in Poland.
Mr. Goodhart kept personal notes
daily. which he edited and put in read
able form. He observed both the
Poles and the Jews with sympathetic
eye. We will quote number of strik-
ing passages:
In the afternoon NJ Nicmojewski,
the most violent anti-Semitic editor
in Poland, called on the Mission. He
is small, round-faced. good natured-
looking man, whose little eyes blink
thru pair of large sprctaclcs. He
has had "A varied career. Attic Ii"
was once philo-Semitic. Radical, and
anti-Church. he is now the opposite of
all three. George Brandcs. the Dan
ish critic, ridicule1 one of his books
some years ago. and he has never for
given the Jewish race for this insult.
He is particularly fond of claiming
that the Old Testament and the Tai
mud are essentially immoral books. He
further argues that the Jews should
be driven from Poland because, ac-
cording to their religion. they cannot
. faithful citizens of the republic.
One of the Jewish newspapers answer
ed thcs" attacks by quoting from the
New Tcstamcnt-St. John Nv. Is: IL
II man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as branch. and is withcred
and men gather them. and cast them
into the fire. and they are burned"
In accordance with this verse the
Spanish priests celebrated their autos
da-fe at which heretics were burnt |
Nowadays, no Christian, either Cath