(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The democratic bloc of minority nationalities which was formed in Latvia a year ago has collapsed. The bloc included the democratic Jewish, Polish and Russian deputies. It succeeded in bringing about the formation of a democratic Government, which enacted several measures of benefit to the Jews of Latvia. Not long ago the Russian deputies made a number of demands to which the Government could not agree. The Russian deputies thereupon went over to the opposition of the Right. The Polish deputies followed them into the opposition and in consequence the Government fell.
The new Government under the Premiership of M. Juroshevski, a notorious anti-Semite, who was responsible among other things, for the recent carrying out of the referendum on the new citizenship law passed by the democratic Government which conferred citizenship on thousands of Latvian Jews, is supported by the reactionary and anti-Semitic parties in the Sejm.
There is much resentment in certain Jewish circles because the Agudist deputies in the Sejm voted for the new Government in spite of its anti-Semitic tendencies.
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