The attitude of the Polish government regarding the Jewish question in Poland was revealed at today’s session of the Sejm when Boduslaw Meidzinski, ex-mimister and leader of the government party, “regretted” the high percentage of Jews in Poland and accoused the Endeks (National Democrats) of having pursued “a valueless Jewish program.”
“We too regret the high percentage of Jews in Poland.” exminister Miedzinski said in his polemic against the Endeks. “Poland is inhabited by minorities constituting thirty per cent. of the total population. Willy-nilly we must care for them, and we regret the presence of 3,300,000 Jews in Plland.”
Miedzinski then accused the Endeks, of a lack of program regarding the Jewish question.
“Germany, with only one percent. of Jews, achieved only an insignificant Jewish emigration despite her anti-Semitic policy, her persecutions adn her concentration camps,” the speaker said. ‘If the Endeks worked out a civilized, decent and practical solution of the Jewish question, we would accept it immediately and readily, but we categorically maintain that the Jewish program you cannot estroy the Jewish masses. Nor can you expel them, for no country today is admitting Jews.”
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