A far-reaching resolution, enabling fullest discussion of the German question and, if adopted, guaranteeing Jewish rights in all countries now threatened by anti-Semitism, will be moved at tomorrow’s session of the fourteenth League of Nations Assembly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today. The resolution will be introduced by M. Frangulies, delegate from Haiti.
The resolution proposes that all countries, including Germany, undertake to guarantee elementary human and citizenship rights, particularly equality before the law, irrespective of race, language and religion, and protection of life and freedom.
Simultaneously, the resolution foresees creation of an international body to regulate questions of emigration of such minorities who are compelled to emigrate. The resolution was circularized today among the delegates.
SEEK LEAGUE COMMISSIONER
The appointment of a League of Nations commissioner to handle the problems arising from the existence of thousands of German-Jewish refugees will be urged on the assembly by Leonard Montefiore and Norman Bentwich, outstanding British Jewish leaders, who came to Geneva to press the Jewish cause.
Mr. Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Committee, and Mr. Bentwich, former atorney general of Palestine, were designated by the Board of Deptuies of British Jews to seek League aid in behalf of the refugees.
While the majority of the delegates here are in favor of the appointment of a commissioner, they consider German cooperation desirable in this both as regards the appointment itself and the facilitation of the commissioner’s work. For these reasons, several delegates to the assembly advised the Jewish representatives to confine their
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