We can only hope and pray that this year may see the restoration of confidence, hope and stability all over Europe, Mr. Leonard G. Montefiore, the President, said in presenting the report of the Joint Foreign Committee to the meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association held here this afternoon.
As regards the excesses committed at the Polish Universities by a certain section of students against their Jewish fellow-students, Mr. Montefiore said, the prompt action of the Government had had good results, and he was glad to note the declaration of the Polish Minister of Education sternly condemning these outrages. He also welcomed the disapproval shown by the “Gazeta Polska” of recent events as tending to lower Poland’s reputation in foreign countries. The anti-Jewish economic boycott which still persists, will probably bring its own retribution, he went on. Polish trade and commerce will inevitably suffer as a result, and warning voices have already been raised in the Polish press.
As regards Germany, the fortunes of the Jewish Community, Mr. Montefiore said, are intimately bound up with the fortunes of the country as a whole. If German industry could expand sufficiently to absorb a large number of those who now are unemployed, it seemed likely that the ranks of the Hitlerists would be very seriously diminished.
The Council put on record an appreciation of the services of Mr. Rich.
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