Henry Hurwitz, Chancellor of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, referring to the report that the Brooklyn College Menorah Society participated in the student protest demonstration on Thursday against the Polish riots, declares:
"Your report stated that members of the Menorah Society participated.
"Of course any student may do what he wishes on his account. But no student had the right to represent Menorah in that demonstration. At a previous meeting of the officers of the Inter-Varsity Menorah Council representing all Menorah Societies at the colleges and universities of New York, it was unanimously voted that the Menorah disapproved of and would not demonstrate in any parade demonstration."
A banner with the inscription Brooklyn College Menorah Society was carried in the student demonstration on Thursday.
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