When the Poles beat back the Reds, they com¬ monly found that the Jews had already set up Soviet¬ ism, as if they had long awaited it and were well prepared. It is scarcely strange, therefore, that the Poles still retain their suspicions.
The Jews do not want to become Poles. That is the root of the present difficulty between the two peoples. Sir Stuart Samuel barely touches it—“On several occasions the resentment of the soldiery and JEWS USE PEACE CONFERENCE TO BIND POLAND 239 civil population was aroused by the Zionists’ claim to Jewish nationality as opposed to Polish nationality.”
Mr. Morgenthau goes a step further—‘‘This had led to a conflict with the nationalist declarations of some of the Jewish organizations which desire to establish cultural autonomy financially supported by the State.” Mr.
Morgenthau, you will observe, gives a wider peep into conditions.
But the best description of the situation is given in the report of Captain Wright: “Their (the Jews’)
party program in Poland is to have all Jews on a sep¬ arate register. The Jews thus registered are to elect a representative body