Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, has given the assurances of his government that all loyal citizens in liberated Czechoslovakia will be treated on a basis of absolute equality. He declared it “a matter of personal pride” to see to it that the treatment of Jews in Czechoslovakia shall be as fair as was the case in that country before the war.
Mr. Masaryk made this statement to Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, head of the political department of the World Jewish Congress, and Dr. F. Fried, chairman of the Czechoslovak Representative Committee, affiliated with the Congress, with whom he discussed the principal problems entailed in the repatriation and rehabilitation of Jews who would return to Czechoslovakia at the conclusion of the war. At the conclusion of the interview, Mr. Masaryk authorized the publication of the following statement:
“I wish to go on record once again in stating that decent citizens of Czechoslovakia regardless of race or faith will be treated in the same fair manner as was the case before this terrible war started. The treatment of Jews in my country is a matter of personal pride to me and there will be no change whatsoever in this respect. This statement can be considered as the concerted opinion of the Czechoslvak Government in London.”
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