The Archive · 1940

Disgraceful for Nazis To Learn Polish

Berlin, Feb. 1.

The "Warschauer Zeitung" yesterday complained that German officials. lin Poland have been trying to learn Polish, whereas it is really up to the Poles, as a vanquished race, to learn German.

"One really cannot seo why the victor should suit himself "to the vanquished," the journal said, "partiularly in our case, where German culture towers above the alleged cultural achievements of, the former Pojand.... German for Poles! Polish for Germans—United Press, Crew of Columbus in U.S, at Present New York, Feb. 1.

Immigration ofclals state that the crew of the liner Columbus, which was scuttled to escape capture by a British destroyer, are still interned on Angel. Island, San Francisco. Thus the report that 500 members of the! crew have sailed abroad in Japanese ishing boats is denied.

'Rumours, however, are current that a plan exists to divide the sailors into small units and scatter them along the coast and then quietly put them aboard Japanese ships. 'The sailors themselves say they are willing to try' 'a hazardous voyage in order to get home—Reuter.

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