Foreign Minister Jozef Beck of Poland will shortly visit London in response to a formal invitation from the British Government, it was reported today. It is believed that one of the questions he will discuss will be emigration of Jews from Poland. Efforts to bring the Polish emigration question within the scope of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee have so far failed, it is said, largely because of the opposition of South American members to any extension of the committee’s work.
Hope that the Intergovernmental Committee would deal at least with the problem of Polish Jews deported from Germany was expressed by a delegation from the Polish Jewish Society for Colonization, headed by Chief Rabbi Moses Schorr, which visited here recently for discussions with officials and Jewish leaders. A statement by the delegation said that George Rublee, then director of the Intergovernmental Committee, had declared the committee would take a favorable attitude towards the request for inclusion of the deportees within the committee’s competence.
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