Sir Stuart Samuel—“This boycott dates from shortly after the by-election for the Duma, which took place in Warsaw in 1912 * * * During the war, owing to the scarcity of almost everything, the boycott di¬ minished, but with the armistice it revived with much of its original intensity * * * A severe private, social and commercial boycott of Jews, however, exists among the people generally, largely fostered by the Polish press. In Lemburg I found there was a socalled social court presided over by M. Przyluski, a former Austrian vice-president of the Court of Ap¬ peals, which goes so far as to summon persons having trade relations with Jews to give an explanation of WHY JEWS DISLIKE THE MORGENTHAU REPORT 229 their conduct. Below will be found a typical cutting from a Polish newspaper giving the name of a Polish countess who sold property to Jews. This was sur¬ rounded by a mourning border such as is usual in Poland in making announcements of death.
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“‘Countess Anna Jablonowska, resident in Ga¬ licia, has sold her two houses, Stryjska street, Nos. 18 and 20, to the Jews, Dogilewski, Hubner and Erbsen. The