lodge meetings. But Mr. Morgenthau exercises more precision in the use of words. He says:
“The mission has purposely avoided the use of the word ‘pogrom/ as the word is applied to everything from petty outrages to premeditated and carefully organized massacres * * * ”
On one point all the reports agree, namely, that the unjust killing of Jews has been on a scale so much smaller than that alleged by the propagandists that there is no comparison. In that part of Poland where war disorder was less common, 18 persons were unjustly deprived of their lives. For the whole terri¬ tory during the entire period when it was being over¬ run by various elements, Sir Stuart Samuel admits, apparently with reluctance, that he can count only 348. Captain Wright says: “I estimate that not more than 200 or 300 have been unjustly killed. One would be too many, but, taking these casualties as a standard with which to measure the excesses committed against them, I am more astonished at their smallness than their greatness.” Sir H. Rumbold says: “If the excesses had been encouraged or organized by the civil and military authorities, the number of victims would probably have been much greater.”