Despite Assault Deputy Proceeds with National Minorities Bloc Plan (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A representative of the Polish Ministry of the Interior called on Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum yesterday to express the sympathy and regret of the government at the assault made on him.
The government will institute an energetic inquiry to apprenend the culprits, the representative assured Deputy Gruenbaum.
Deputy Gruenbaum submitted a complaint to the government Commissioner of the city of Warsaw against the action of the policeman who permitted the three men who attacked him to escape.
There are several rumors afloat attempting to explain the motive for the attack. It is obvious at any rate that it was in connection with Gruenbaum’s plan to form a bloc of the national minorities at the forthcoming election. The opinion is also expressed that the attack might have been the act of the followers of the Petlura party who are opposed to a minorities bloc.
In a statement issued to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Deputy Gruenbaum declared that “terror will not frighten me into not forming the bloc.” A conference of leaders of the Jewish, German, Ukrainian, White Russian and Lithuanian groups will take place tomorrow to consider the formation of the bloc. The prospects for consummating these plans are said to be favorable.
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