about repression of the press. The Polish press has at last obtained WHY JEWS DISLIKE THE MORGENTHAU 'REPORT 223 freedom of writing. It is exercising a privilege which the Jewish press of Poland has always had. But now that it speaks freely of Jews, repress it with a strong hand, says Sir Stuart. He would not dare suggest that in England where the press also is finding its freedom. As to the Yiddish press in Poland, the reader will find some information in Israel Friedlaender’s essay, “The Problem of Polish Jewry.” Friedlaender was a Jew and his book is published by a Jewish house in Cin¬ cinnati. He says:
“The Yiddish press sprang up and became a power¬ ful civilizing agency among the Jews of Poland. The extent of its influence may be gathered from the fact, which curiously enough is pointed out reproachfully by the Poles, that the leading Yiddish newspaper of Warsaw commanded but a few years ago a larger circula¬ tion than that of all the Polish newspapers combined.”