Asks That His License for Tobacco Sale Be Renewed (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
David Lloyd George, former prime minister of Great Britain and the new leader of the Liberal party, has weighed his personal influence in favor of a Jewish family which was ruined economically because of the introduction of the tobacco monopoly in Poland.
The family is that of Rabbi Chaim Hurwicz of Romanow, Galicia. Rabbi Hurwicz obtained a license for the sale of tobacco twenty years ago. When the ordinance recalling the monopoly concessions was promulgated, his license was revoked. Rabbi Hurwicz then wrote to David Lloyd George, telling him of his plight.
When Count Skrzynski, who was then Premier and Foreign Minister, visited London, Lloyd George promised that he would see to it that Rabbi Hurwicz’s license would be renewed. In the meantime, however, the Skrzynski government fell and nothing was done to aid the rabbi.
The parliamentary committee of the British Liberal Party has addressed a letter to Mr. Zaleski, the Polish Foreign Minister, telling of the promise of Count Skrzynski to aid the Hurwicz family. Following this instructions were issued that the license of Rabbi Hurwicz be renewed. These instructions, however, met with the opposition of the local Polish officials who demand that the rabbi’s license be again withdrawn.
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