A Polish parliament was presided over by a Jew for the first time today when Dr. Herman Lieberman, leader of the Socialist fraction, was elected acting chairman of the Polish National Council, the Polish Parliament-in-exile.
The decisive part which the United States is expected to play in the economic reconstruction of Europe is bound to preclude Jewish mass emigration from the Continent for decades, Ignacy Schwartzbart, Jewish member of the Polish National Council, declared before a meeting of the Nahum Sokolow Society of Polish Zionists in Britain. Denouncing propaganda for Jewish evacuation as a capitulation and incompatible with the ideal of justice “upon which the new democratic Europe is to be based,” he asserted that there would be no need for mass emigration from post-war Europe, even for economic reasons, since the reconstruction of Europe could be carried out with the help of the United States.
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