Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck obtained from the British Government a promise to “examine” the question of emigration of Jews from Poland and Rumania, the British Foreign Office disclosed tonight, as the House of Commons heard an attack on Poland’s policy regarding the Jews.
The Foreign Office issued the following statement:
“In the course of the recent conversations in London Mr. Beck expressed the desire that any international effort for treatment of the Jewish problem should be extended to that of the Jews of Poland and that Jewish emigrants from Poland should have their due share in any opportunity for settlement which may be found. Mr. Beck at the same time, at the request of the Rumanian Government, drew attention to similar problems existing in Rumania.
“Mr. Beck was assured that His Majesty’s Government fully appreciated the difficulties to which he had referred and would at any time be ready to examine with the Polish and Rumanian Governments proposals for solution of particular problems arising in Poland and Rumania which are part of a larger problem.”
Commons, debating the refugee problem before adjourning for the Easter holiday, heard Col. Josiah Wedgwood (Laborite) urge the British Government, “while arranging to defend Polish independence,” to “do something to prevent the Polish Government from pursuing its vile religious discrimination.”
The Federation of Polish Jews of Great Britain adopted a resolution pledging support to Poland in the event of aggression. The resolution was telegraphed to Polish Ambassador Count Raczynski for the information of Col. Beck.
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