The Archive · 1938

Polish Deputy Attacks Germany in Diet Treatment of Mine Bitterly Assailed

Warsaw, Apr. 23.

Germany's treatment of the Polish minority in the Reich was bitterly attacked here today when Deputy Jan Walewsky made a pungent speech before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Diet.

Bringing to light yet another side" of the daily more complicated minorities problem, M. Walewsky accused the Reich of not abiding by the provisions of the pact on minorities signed by Germany and Poland. The latter has loyally fulfilled all her obligations, he asserted, but such was not the case with the Reich.

Polish workers and peasants.residing in Germany and not belonging to the National Socialist Party are persecuted, and German teachers threaten Polish parents in various ways if the latter do not enlist their children in the Hitler Youth, Deputy Walewsky charged.

On hearing these accusations, German quarters here expressed asionishment. They point out that the moment is ill-chosen for any attacks on the treatment received by Pole ly Germany. They state significantly that new complaints are even now being made by Germany on the subject of the illegal dismissal of German workers by certain Polish concerns, and a number of other "objectionable actions here."—Havas,

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