Henry Morgenthau says (par. 7)—“The soldiers had been inflamed by the charge that the Jews were Bolsheviks, while at Lemberg it was associated with the idea that the Jews were making common cause with the Ukrainians. These excesses were, therefore, political as well as anti-Semitic in character.”
And again (par. 8)—“Just as the Jews would resent being condemned as a race for the action of a few of ' their co-religionists, so it would be correspondingly un¬ fair to condemn the Polish nation as a whole for the violence committed by uncontrolled troops or local mobs. These excesses were apparently not premedi¬ tated, for if they had been part of a preconceived plan, the number of victims would have run into the thousands instead of amounting to about 280. It is believed that these excesses were the result of a widespread antiSemitic prejudice aggravated by the belief that the Jewish inhabitants were politically hostile to the Polish State.'9 Sir H. Rumbold says: “It is giving the Jews very little real assistance to single out, as is sometimes done, for reprobation and protest the country where they have perhaps suffered least.”
Captain P. Wright says: “It is an explanation often given of what may be called, according to the point of view, the idiosyncracies or defects of the Jews, that they have been an oppressed and persecuted people. This is an idea so charitable and humane that I should like to think it, not only of the Jews, but of every other people. It has every merit as a theory, except that of being true. When one thinks of what happened to the other ‘racial, religious and linguistic minorities’ of Europe in modern times * * * the Jews appear not as the most persecuted but as the most favored people of Europe.” * Brigadier General Jadwin states clearly that the “persecution” cry may be regarded as propaganda.