Ms. Marilyn Piurek
Via E-mail

Ms. Piurek:

Greetings and salutations from Chicago. It was nice to read your e-mail to Ron and the possibility of working towards some possible mutual cooperation that will truly improve the status of the Poles in the American mainstream.

Not knowing enough about the role of each new organization, I can see where we all can help in achieving what we all desire, our so-called "place in the sun."

From just what I know about these new groups, their primary goal is to seek the removal of Edward Moskal. I should think my departure is a decision I would make. If my approach, lack of diplomatic jargon and supposed anti-Semitic statement is what bothers some folks, I would say it is unfortunate they can't read plain English. If standing up in the defense of us Poles makes us anti-Semitic, so be it.

In reading Congressman Findley's book, "They Dare to Speak", I can understand the tactics and efforts of intimidation to such a fine art, unfortunately.

We all who work in the Polish Community have our own intrinsic mission in life and we strive to achieve as much success as possible in our fields. We in the P.A.C. and P.A.C.C.F. can be proud of all our humanitarian efforts, so we rightly can ask our critics "What have you wrought to benefit the less fortunate, here in America or in Poland?"

Politically, we are novices, so groups with that primary purpose could be encouraged and helped. That also was a purpose by the founders of the P.A.C., but situations existing then, and in some cases now, yes, we've gotten sidetracked.

At this time I believe we have truly fulfilled our obligations to Poland and given the anti-Polishness that pervades our communities; committees such as you promote should continue in its work as partners and not as adversaries.

I started something here in Chicago and my remarks were completely taken out of context and I was called anti-Semite, so I wish you luck.

Respectfully,

Edward J. Moskal
President