Dr. Rudolf Brandsch, of the German Party, who has been appointed Under-Secretary of State in charge of the newly-created Department for Minorities, explained his views on the duties and activities of the new Department in an interview with the J.T.A. representative here.
All questions affecting the minorities will be dealt with through my Department, he said, naturally, Jewish questions like the others. The idea of a Minorities Statute, Dr. Brandsch said, is one which we shall not be able to deal with until after the elections, when we shall have time to consider the question from all aspects and to consult the various sections concerned.
Referring to the newly-established Jewish Unity Party, Dr. Brandsch said that this was an internal Jewish matter, on which he could say very little. He knew most of the leaders of the Jewish Party, who were his friends, he said, and he would have been very happy had it been possible to have a pact between the new Party and the Government.
When he was asked whether the new Under-Secretariat of State was likely to have a special section for Jewish questions, Dr. Brandsch said that at present he was busy organising the new Department, and it depended on the development of the work and the extension of its scope whether it would be possible to arrange for a Jewish section. On principle, there was, of course, nothing against the proposal, but it was a matter that depended on future developments.
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