Minister is Misinformed Says Jewish Press: We Can Give Him Thousands of Addresses Where Jewish Famil

Our Minister is misinformed, the “Najer Hajnt” comments on General Skladkowski’s statements in his interview with the J.T.A., to which the entire Jewish press is taking strong exception. No one is dying yet of starvation in Poland, the Minister told the J.T.A. representatives, because potatoes are so very cheap, the “Hajnt” continues, but we can give the Minister thousands of addresses where Jewish families are dying of hunger because they have not the few groschen needed for buying even the very cheap potatoes. We have also read enough reports recently in the newspapers about the large numbers of children fainting in the schools, because they have had no food for several days. The Minister says that the Polish peasants are also suffering, but he forgets that the peasants live on the soil, where they can at least get potatoes and bread, while the Jews have no such opportunities. The Minister accuses the Jewish chauvinists of spreading alarm, but they spread the alarm only because the Jewish suffering is so terribly great.

As for General Skladkowski’s explanation that the Government regulations to exclude non-religious Jews from the elections to the Jewish Communities are prompted by the desire of the Government to prevent the Communists disrupting the Jewish Communities, the “Najer Hajnt” says, we must protest against the Polish Government for misinforming the representatives of the J.T.A. We protest strongly against the attempt of the Government to make use of the J.T.A. for spreading libelous information abroad.

General Skladkowski’s statements are dealt with even more drastically in the Bundist “Folkscajtung”. The “Moment”, the “Folksblatt”, and other Yiddish papers also comment unfavourably on the interview, while paying tribute to the attention given to the J.T.A. in the highest Government circles, due obviously to the importance which they attach to the J.T.A. as the link connecting Jewish interests throughout the world, and informing the entire Jewish world wherever Jewish interests in any country are threatened.

The Polish language Jewish daily “Nasz Przeglad” in commenting also on General Skladkowski’s interview, says that it will give a lot of trouble to M. Filipowicz, the Polish Ambassador in America. The Minister’s reference to Communists in regard to the voting restrictions in the Jewish Communities, it says, shows that our Ministers are not being properly informed about the situation. His police officials should have told him that the Jewish Communists do not take any part in the work of the Jewish communities, so that his excuse about the restrictions being intended to exclude the Communists from the Jewish Communities falls to the ground.