NOWA PRAWDA, ORGAN OF EX-PRESIDENT JAN PADEREWSKI, SAID TODAY THE DELBOS-BECK COLONIAL TALKS CHIEFLY CONCERNED PEASANTS’ EMIGRATION AND RAW MATERIALS, AND DID NOT FEATURE THE SUBJECT OF JEWISH EMIGRATION.
REPORTS OF THE NUMBERS OF PERSONS TO BE SETTLED IN MADAGASCAR UNDER THE POLISH PLAN DO NOT TALLY WITH STATEMENTS MADE BY A FRENCH COLONIAL OFFICE OFFICIAL LAST JANUARY FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT BY COLONIAL MINISTER MARIUS MOUTET OF AN OFFER TO PERMIT SETTLEMENT OF JEWS IN FOUR FRENCH POSSESSIONS — MADAGASCAR, FRENCH GUIANA, THE NEW HEBRIDES AND NEW CALEDONIA.
ON JAN. 22, COLONIAL UNDERSECRETARY BOUTEILLE DECLARED THE OFFER HAD IN MIND SETTLEMENT OF ONLY TEN JEWISH FAMILIES IN 1937, THIRTY IN 1938 AND FIFTY THE FOLLOWING YEAR. HE DECLARED: “THE QUAI D’ORSAY HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT SOME FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS BELIEVE COLONIAL MINISTER MOUTET’S PROJECT WILL HELP THEIR PLANS TO EVACUATE THEIR JEWS. SUCH HOPES ARE ENTIRELY WITHOUT FOUNDATION.”
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