The Polish Press

The 728 titles do not include papers published by Polish emigrants before 1939.Google Scholar

March 1953.Google Scholar

The history of this paper and the analysis of its content is given in the next section of this Chapter.Google Scholar

Some 60% of the weekly sales are realized through Polish R.C. parish committees selling the Gazeta Niedzielna to members of the congregation after the Mass on Sundays.Google Scholar

Both the Wiadomosci and the Kultura have a substantial circulation in other countries where there are large Polish minorities, specially in the U.S.A.Google Scholar

The price was raised to 21/2d. in October 1951 and then to 3d. in April 1952. a All issues published on Wednesday were examined.Google Scholar

It should, perhaps, be noted that the Dziennik Polski is strictly independent so far as emigré politics are concerned, though of course, anti-Communist.Google Scholar

A similar service is offered by the Polish Combatants’ Association. See Chapter VIII.Google Scholar

It should be remembered that the two samples of Dziennik Polski which have been examined consist only of Wednesday issues. The Saturday issues of the paper carry more advertisements than any weekday issue. It appears that as much as 30% of the total text space may be taken up by adverts, chiefly of firms specializing in sending parcels to Poland and the delicatessen shops. Presumably people who are likely to patronize these establishments do not work on Saturday afternoons and may therefore be attracted by advert.Google Scholar

cf. R. E. Park, The Immigrant Press and its Control, New York, 1922,Google Scholar

Martin S. Allwood and Others, The Norwegian-American Press and Nordisk Tidende (mimeographed), Mullsjo, 1950.Google Scholar

H. B. M. Murphy, “The Assimilation of Refugee Immigrants in Australia”, Population Studies, 1951.Google Scholar

The problem of linguistic adjustment will be referred to in Chapter XI. It will suffice to say at this stage that a significant proportion of the Poles speak little English. The ethnic segregation in employment, the xenophobia of the British people and the existence of a complete structure of Polish functional associations may account for this.Google Scholar

In addition Polish library facilities provide an adequate supply of Polish books.Google Scholar

A recent example of the political nature of the Polish press was the case of the seven Polish sailors who mutinied in the trawler Puszczyk and were landed at Whitby in September 1954. Upon landing the sailors asked for political asylum in Britain. The Communist Government of Poland demanded their extradition and the case was brought before the High Court in London. It was left to Dziennik Polski to mobilize the support of the Polish Community in Britain in collecting funds for the payment of a well-known British Queen’s Counsel who defended them during the court proceedings. Within 10 days some £ 6,000 was subscribed by the readers of the paper.Google Scholar

It should be stressed that except for occasional criticism of British foreign policy, none of the papers reviewed in this chapter is anti-British or hostile to British institutions.Google Scholar