David Lloyd George, Great Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, declared yesterday the Allied Powers cannot remain indifferent to the degradation of the Polish Jews through the Polish Government’s failure to fulfill treaty obligations.
In a message to a conference on the situation of the Polish Jews he said the minorities clauses had been included in the peace treaties to prevent new racial persecutions and declared the Jews were now being subjected to barbarous attacks.
The conference, sponsored by the British section of the World Jewish Congress, adopted a resolution demanding equal rights for the Jews of Poland and declaring that Jews everywhere would assist in the rehabilitation of the Jewish masses in Poland if the Government did its part.
The resolution deplored anti-Jewish excesses in Poland and denied that the Jews were an “alien or superfluous element” in the population.
Messages condemning persecution in Poland were received from the Bishops of Durham and York, Lord Cecil, Major Clement Attlee, Laborite leader, and Archibald Sinclair, a member of Parliament. Speakers included Prof. Selig Bredetsky and the Rev. Maurice L. Perlzweig.
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