Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, the city’s socialist chief executive, and other municipal leaders were assailed here by Isadore Horwitz, local publisher, for joining prominently in a welcome and entertainment for General Joseph Haller, Polish military leader, on his visit to Milwaukee.
Horwitz, in an article published in his weekly Milwaukee Wochenblat, criticized Mayor Hoan for greeting a man whose armies during and following the World War “killed thousands of Jewish men, women and children in Poland and caused great numbers of Jewish girls to commit suicide.”
Hoan was also condemned by Horwitz for allowing a huge electric sign with the words “Welcome General Haller” to be placed on the City Hall tower. Haller, on a two-day visit here, was acclaimed as a hero by Milwaukee’s 100,000 Polish residents.
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