Good Will Committee of 7 Poles and 7 Jews Created to Bring About Amity Between the Two Races Here an

A good-will committee, consisting of seven Polish Jews and seven Polish Gentiles, residents of the United States, was created at a conference called jointly by the Federation of Polish Jews in America and the Consul General of Poland, Dr. M. J. T. March-lewski, for the purpose of bringing about a better understanding between the two Polish-born groups in this country and between the Jews and Gentiles in Poland itself.

On the Jewish side the committee consists of: Benjamin Winter, Z. Tygel, Dr. J. Tenenbaum, Jacob Leichtman, Herman B. Oberman, Abraham Harris and Charles Green. The Gentile members of the committee are: Consul General Marchlewski, Dr. Max Grunbaum, Joseph Kresse, A. E. Ruszkiewicz, Paul C. Supinsky, Prof. Theodore Abel and M. F. Wegrzynek.

The resolution which the conference adopted reads:

“Whereas there are a considerable number of American citizens of Polish extraction resident in America, all of them united by a bond of common ancestry and through the interest in the welfare of their old homeland and the people residing therein; whereas these Americans of Polish extraction comprise both the Jewish and non-Jewish natives or descendants of Polish origin; whereas the Good Will Movement as propagated and developed among Americans of diverse faiths and origins has contributed so much towards the establishment of mutual good will and understanding between the various groups and faiths and has been the means of bringing about so much of civic progress and general well-being to the American nation as a whole; and whereas good will and understanding between the Jewish and non-Jewish groups of American citizens of Polish extraction will serve to enhance not only the well-being of these named respective groups domiciled in America, but also result in much practical good to our compatriots in the old homeland;

“Be it resolved that a Permanent Good Will Committee, composed of men of both the Jewish and the non-Jewish groups of American citizens of Polish ancestry be formed, for the purpose of elaborating plans and devising ways and means by which the both named groups may co-operate harmoniously and in the spirit of good fellowship for the welfare of both, as well as for the welfare of their fellows and brothers in blood and spirit in the old homeland, Poland; be it further resolved that a committe of 14—seven of each group—be named here tonight to serve to work out plans, rules and regulations for the activities of this permanent committee.”

“If we come here to a better feeling between the Polish Jews and Polish Gentiles,” said Consul General Marchlewski at the conference, “it will not only be to the advantage of us who are living here, but I am fully convinced that this better feeling will be radiating over our Old Country, and help there to find and create friendly understanding between Gentiles and Jews in Poland, based on mutual confidence and mutual respect.”

Speaking for the Jews, Benjamin Winter, president of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, said:

“I am not prepared to state at present what the future accomplishments of this Permanent Good Will Committee are to be. But I am certain that we are even now laying the foundations of an enterprise that our future generations will be enabled to properly estimate. I feel that a new page is now being written in the history of our achievements on behalf of all the elements of the Polish population abroad as well as for us living here.”