There is no possibility of world peace until the Jewish problem is solved, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk today told a ?eting here of the Anti – Fascist League, called to protest anti- Semitism in the country. Four thousand persons attended.
Asserting that he was ashamed that it was necessary to hold such a meeting in Czechoslovakia, Masaryk castigated anti-Jewish sentiment and incidents in Slovakia ?d declared that it will be impossible to achieve democracy or socialism in the country unless anti-Semitism is conquered. He said that there was no real anti-Semitism the country, but that some anti-Semitic habits persisted from the Nazi occupation.
Citing the nation’s “immeasurable debt” to the Jews, he insisted: “My assistance to the Jews is only my duty to the Jewish victims.”
I. Fuchs, vice-president of the Prague Jewish Community, asked the Czechs to ##dge the Jewish people on the basis of their attitude during the German occupation. condemned the killing of Jews in Slovakian riots since the liberation and the con##cation of small farms owned by Jews.
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