POLISH ANTI-SEMITISM
SIR,—I am sorry that " Janus " seems to have listened only to those in- formants who have been busily spreading the suggestion that allegations of anti-Semitism in the Polish Forces have -been exaggerated. Having talked personally with large numbers of the victims, I fear that this is not so ; but if it is so, it surely makes much simpler the administrative problem of transferring to our Forces those who wish to be transferred. The opponents of further transfers cannot have it both ways: they cannot say that only a few Jews are unhappy or maltreated in the Polish Forces and that, if further transfers were made possible, military arrangements would be upset because such large numbers of Jews would hasten to escape from their misery.
" Janus " says that it is " arguable " whether those who deserted had cause to do so The British and Polish Governments thought that they had, and negotiated the transfer of zoo of them, without punishment. Only 60o remain to be dealt with ; a couple of dozen, meanwhile, are suffering imprisonment for' taking the same step which the British and Polish Governments had lately, by implication, condoned in the case of the zoo.
It is not enough to " stamp out open anti-Semitism " in the Polish Army. It remains latent, and its practitioners threaten sotto voce that it will become open again as soon as the invasion of Europe starts and there are no humanitarian British busybodies within earshot.
Many of the zoo who were transferred are already in British combatant units—free, happy, and efficient fighters in the cause of the United
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