Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum resigned yesterday as president of the “Kolo,” or Jewish Parliament Club. Gruenbaum resigned because a meeting of the “Kolo” had refused his proposal to vote as a body in parliament against the government budget. Only three other deputies, Hartglass, Davidsohn and Koerner, supported Gruenbaum, who claimed that the changes which the government had made in the budget in favor of Jewish needs were to insignificant for the Jewish deputies to support the budget as a whole. Deputy Szabad did not vote on the Gruenbaum proposal.
The majority of the “Kolo” members took the attitude that though they couldn’t vote for the budget, because of the government’s attitude towards minorities, the government of Premier Bartel had, however, shown good will, and that they must therefore refrain from voting in order to give the government time to realize its good intentions.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that the Mizrachi deputies will ask the “Kolo” not to accept Gruenbaum’s resignation.
In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, the Galician deputy Schreiber declared that the Galician deputies are not prepared to take over the leadership of the “Kolo,” for when they were at one time the leaders there were complaints that they represented only a minority of the Jews in Poland and that they weren’t therefore entitled to formulate policies for all the Jews of Poland.
Meanwhile Deputies Gruenbaum and Farbstein have left for Berlin at the request of Dr. Weizmann.
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