Presidential aide admits to anti-Semitic diatribe in '68, plans to keep post
Andrzej Majkowski, a presidential aide responsible for international
contacts, has admitted to giving an anti-Semitic speech in 1968 at a meeting
of Communist youth organization Socialist Youth Union (ZMS). "[We need] to
clean the [Communist] Party and the government administration of Zionist and
revisionists... None of these people had to spend their vacation helping out
their father on the farm. Instead, they vacationed in Paris, London or
Rome," said Majkowski in April 1968, the height of anti-Semitic propaganda
activity by the Communist party. At the time Majkowski was secretary general
of ZMS and a member of the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR), the ruling
Communist party. After rightist newspaper Gazeta Polska recently ran a story
on these activities, Majkowski called a press conference yesterday. He
confirmed that the report is true, that he regrets what he did, but that he
has no plans to step down from his post in the President's Chancellery.
(Rzeczpospolita, p.A1) T.J.
