Much comment has been aroused here by the fact that the Masryk Jubilee Fund, which was started last year in tribute to President Masaryk on his 80th. birthday and raised the sum of 20 million Czech Kronen (about £120,000) for distribution in aid of humanitarian objects, has been distributed now by the directors among various institutions, without any Jewish cultural or social institution receiving anything, although a number of applications were made by Jewish institutions, and although the Jews are much more in number than the Poles, whose institutions have benefited, as well as those of the German and Hungarian minorities. It is suggested that partisan political bias, and especially agrarian influence, is behind this complete passing over of all Jewish institutions.
When President Masaryk attained his eightieth birthday last March, the Jews of Czecho-Slovakia held special services in all the synagogues, and there were celebrations in the Jewish schools. The Czecho-Slovakian Zionists decided to commemorate the occasion by raising a fund to plant a Masaryk Forest in Palestine, and to inscribe his name in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund, as a record of his friendship to the Jews, and Jewish orthodoxy in Czecho-Slovakia and other Jewish groups in the country decided to raise a separate fund to establish a Jewish sanatorium in the Tatra Mountains named in honour of President Masaryk.
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