Congress of National Minorities in Geneva Continues Its Sessions

Jewish Leader Reads Paper (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The problems of the national minorities in European countries were further deliberated upon at yesterday’s session of the National Minorities Congress.

Much interest was displayed in the papers read at the Congress by Professor Lazarsohn, Jewish leader of Latvia, on “State Sovereignity and Minorities Protection” in which he dwelt on the phase of the problem which has caused most opposition of the majority populations. He argued that the state sovereignty is not in any way lessened by legal protection provided for the minorities.

A lively discussion followed in which many representatives of the national minorities, including the Jewish representatives, participated. Great interest was also displayed in the paper submitted by Dr. Ammende, general secretary of the national minorities organization. The subject of his paper was “National Intolerance Jepoardizes European Peace.”