THE WARSAW GHETTO
Sut,—Miss Olive Bennett calls Mr. Harold Nicolson "a propagandist" who "stretches the bounds of human credulity" in saying that 433,000 Warsaw Jews have been "congregated in a ghetto behind a high wall " ; she says that this figure is twice the whole populatioh of Warsaw, and that she would "like to see the wall enclosing half a million people."
Before stretching human patience with such a letter, Miss Bennett- might have ascertained her facts. The total population of Warsaw at the census of 1931 was 1,171,900, and by 1939 had considerably exceeded that figure: it was at least three times the -figure of 433,00o and not half of it. To isolate a district in a typical Continental town it is not necessary to build a wall round the whole—as it might be, say, in Wimbledon or Greenwich—but merely to close a certain number of street exits. The wall was there, and I have talked to non-Jewish eye-witnesses who have seen the ghetto and its horrors. I refrain from commenting on the taste of Miss Bennetes effort at jocosity over the Jewish tragedy
in Poland.—! am, Sir, yours, &c., L. B. NAMLER. .r5 Gloucester Walk, London, W.8.
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