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A “Correct” Newspaper

The Vilnia Słowo boasts of the standard of its work, yet in its news column it prints an invented report about the plans of a congress of Lithuanian teachers. The author sees in this an attempt to get the congress banned.

A “Correct” Newspaper

The Vilnia Polish newspaper “Słowo” boasts that it has raised “poziom polskiej prasy wileńskiej” (the level of the Polish Vilnia press)…

But here is what this newspaper writes in its news column in No. 115.

“New plans of the Lithuanians.

A congress of teachers of Lithuanian schools has been called in Vilnia for 9 June.

At this congress a memorandum is to be drawn up for the League of Nations on the persecution of Lithuanian schools in the Vilnia region by the Polish authorities. At the same time the members of the congress will announce a protest against the unlawful occupation of Vilnia by Polish troops. Perhaps the “correct” editor of “Słowo” will tell us where he managed to overhear what the Lithuanian teachers “are to” draw up and proclaim on 6 June?

Could it be by way of the ear of a “prophet” from the Defensywa? The aim of such “information” is perfectly clear: to get the congress banned.

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