Deputy Gruenbaum again came into conflict to-day with the majority of the Club of Jewish Deputies on the third reading of the Government budget taken in plenary session of the Seym.
Deputy Dr. Rosmarin, speaking in the name of the majority of the Club, had read out declaration, repeating in the main the points contained in the speech delivered last week by Deputy Rabbi Dr. Thon, the President of the Club of Jewish Deputies, announcing that the Club of Jewish Deputies could not vote with the Government because it had not attempted to fulfil the minimum of Jewish demands, but at the same time it could not vote with the antisemitic opposition, and therefore had decided on abstention.
Deputy Gruenbaum, who followed, reproached the Jewish spokesmen, complaining that although all of them endorsed his charge that the position of the Jewish population of Poland was one of extreme gravity and the Government had not made any attempt to fulfil even the minimum of the Jewish demands in order to improve it, they failed to draw the necessary consequences, however, by going into opposition against such a Government, and the result was that they were deceiving themselves, the Polish Jews, and foreign Jewry about the real position of this Government. His own attitude was clear, he said. Such a Government could only be opposed, and he would, therefore, vote against its budget.
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