NUMERUS CLAUSUS at Universities Necessary Dyboski

Poland, by Dyboski, Roman. 1933

Why Sunday Closing Law Was Necessary. Why NUMERUS CLAUSUS at Universities was Necessary. Polish Insurrections Had Value Even Though They Failed

This single volume is a mini-encyclopedia on pre-WWII Poland, and I can only touch on a few issues. There is much detail on notable Polish artists, poets, scientists, etc.

Here are some interesting facts. Leibnitz was of Polish stock. (H. A. L. Fisher 1933, p. 10). Polish mining engineer and chemist Ignatius Lukasiewicz, and the Polish patriot Stanislas Szczepanowski, had pioneered the Polish oil industry, culminating in Boryslaw. (pp. 221-222). During the 1920 Bolshevik War, the Russians confiscated 7,000 Polish bells during their march across Poland. (p. 382). In the 1932 Olympics, Poland placed in 8th place overall. (p. 300).

THE INSURRECTIONS: NOT FRUITLESS BLOODLETTING

The author does not believe that the failed 1830 and 1863 Polish Insurrections against Russian rule were useless. Even though European support for Poland did not usually go beyond lip service, the Insurrections kept the issue of Poland alive in European politics, eventually bearing fruit. (p. 39). The author also cites and commends self-help Polish activities that acted against Austrian, Russian, and especially the Prussian rulers of Poland. (p. 198).

THE MINORITIES TREATY, IMPOSED ON POLAND, WAS A FARCE

Now consider the resurrected Poland (1918). Consistent with the premise that the so-called Minorities Treaty was hypocritical insofar as it did not value all minority groups in all nations equally, and that it did not hold other nations to the same standards as Poland, Poles in Germany were significantly worse off than Germans in Poland, notably in the field of education. (pp. 171-172; p. 187).

THE 1918 POGROMS CONTEXTUALIZED

Author Dyboski attributes the 1918-era greatly exaggerated pogroms to Jewish wartime profiteering and the anti-Polish attitudes of the Jewish border population of the new Poland. (p. 177).

ORGANIZED JEWISH HOSTILITY TO THE NEW POLAND

The following is in reference to the Jewish demands for special, separatist rights in conjunction with the so-called Minorities Treaty.

Roman Dyboski describes the conduct of the thirty Jewish deputies in the Polish parliament: “During the first few years of Poland’s new existence, that group maintained a united front and an unvarying attitude of clamorous opposition against every Polish Government. Demands were raised for such extended privileges of self-government as no sovereign state could ever grant to a minority, and one scattered all over the country, too–demands which, in fact, frequently amounted to what would have been, in Mr. Morgenthau’s words, `the creation of a Jewish State within the Polish State.'” (p. 178). Shades of Judeopolonia!

WHY THE SUNDAY CLOSING LAW WAS NECESSARY

Dyboski also turns around Jewish complaints about Sunday closing: “Thus, the claim of Orthodox Jews to be allowed to trade on Sundays because they never do business on Saturday, might appear to be fair, yet would at bottom have meant highly unfair competition with the Christian trader, since it is just Sunday which is the average customer’s only really free day.” (pp. 178-179).

WHY THE NUMERUS CLAUSUS AT UNIVERSITIES WAS NECESSARY: OTHERWISE A STAGGERING JEWISH-FAVORABLE IMBALANCE

The Jewish overabundance at universities, which later provoked the numerus clausus, partly came about because of Zionist Jewish nationalism, which rapidly created an educated Jewish class. In addition, this overabundance was “…partly just on account of wartime increase of wealth among the Jews, and successful evasion of military service on the part of their young men.

Without a NUMERUS CLAUSUS, the Jewish overabundance at universities would have been extreme. For instance, there was a time in the later years of the War [WWI] when the medical faculty at the University of Cracow had seventy percent Jews and only thirty percent Gentiles among its students.” (p. 179). (To keep this in perspective: Note that Jews were just 10%-12% percent of Poland’s population!)

THE EVENTUAL GERMAN PRETEXT FOR STARTING WWII

Author Roman Dyboski wrote this book when WWII was still far below the horizon. Ironic to perennial German complaints about the so-called Polish Corridor splitting East Prussia off the rest of Germany, it was not merely a strip of land designed to give Poland “artificial” access to the sea. It was full-fledged Polish in composition (80% Polish as verified by independent observers: p. 396).