British Jews Vitally Concerned with Fixing of Poland’s Western Frontier, Leader Says

Adolf Berman, Jewish partisan leader and chairman the Jewish Central Committee of Poland, today told the European conference of the ##ld Jewish Congress, which is now in session here, that the problem of Poland’s ?tern boundary was “a matter of life and death for Polish Jewry.”

He pointed out that 60,000 to 70,000 Polish Jews, the majority of the Jewish community, live in the area which will be under discussion at the Foreign Ministers’ ##eting in London Nov. 25, on German and Austrian peace treaties. Any settlement ##ich would move the Polish frontier eastward might lead to a catastrophe for the ?ws, Berman said, adding that “I have been specifically instructed by the Central committee and by a conference of Polish Jewry held recently to call the attention of world Jewry to this danger.”

Warning that any attempt to rebuild Germany politically and economically is threat to the Jews, and specifically to the Polish Jews, the former anti-Nazi ?errilla leader declared that anti-Semitism is still deeply rooted among the German people. “We have just arrived from Berlin,” he told the delegates, “and anti-##emitism is still rife there.”Referring to the discussions on Palestine at the United Nations, he asserted that Polish Jews are proud that “Poland together with other progressive forces in the world, particularly the Soviet Union, have taken the lead in defending the rights and interests of the Jews” at the U.N. “If the Yishuv is threatened by Arabs or imperialist forces,” he continued, “Polish Jewry will support the battle for liberation with all available means.”

Last night the conference discussed detailed plans for the forthcoming second annual All-European convention of the WJC, to be held in Geneva this winter.