present activities only to the securing of the appointment of a commissioner and to refrain from raising complaints generally in order to ensure that there would be no opposition by Germany.
CAN’T AVOID DISCUSSION
It is most doubtful that a discussion of the German situation can be avoided by the assembly, not only because of the resolution due tomorrow and the fact that Sean Lester, rapporteur on the Upper Silesian minorities question, is to submit a report on German observance of the League Council’s dictates in the matter of the Bernheim petition on the infringement of Jewish rights in the plebiscite area, but also because the Jews of Upper Silesia have submitted a petition to the League through the German Government.
The petition complains that discriminations against the Jewish minority in Upper Silesia continue to exist in practice despite the clauses for the protection of minorities in the Polish-German convention and the League decision in the Bernheim case.
The German Government which, in accordance with League procedure, must submit the petition to the League, in an effort to avoid public discussion, is trying to circumvene the assembly and bring the petition direct to the League’s sixth commission. Discussion on the petition, even if the German envoys succeed in presenting it directly to the commission, cannot be avoided.
Le Journal de Geneve, describing this development, remarks that it is curious that Germany should itself become instrumental in provoking discussion of the German question.
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