Der Literatur wird der Prozess gemacht
Literature is given Short Shrift

Summary/Abstract: When, at the beginning of the thirties, the Polish Sanacja government became ever more brutal against the left, and even the critical writers took a hard time, the poet Antoni Słonimski (1895-1976) wrote in one of his "Weekly Chronicles" in the "Wiadomości Literackie": What can and can not be done in Poland? What is illegal and what is forbidden and combated by the state? Let's think, maybe the authorities and the censorship are right? If the political power has to rely on services of spies, informers and provocateurs, and if the gendarme, censorship and police agent in the state are indispensable, then why should not live the country without criticism, without control from the opposition, without free conviction and without this annoying freedom of the word and may develop well? Perhaps the voices of independent writers are less support for the state than the spankings in the remand-prisons? It would be possible ... "

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