Contradicting the statement of Marshal Pilsudski quoted by the Danish novelist, Madam Karin Michaelis, that there are one million too many Jews in Poland, Ambassador Joseph Pilipovitch, new Polish envoy to the United States, declared that his country is wealthy enough and willing enough to care for all its subjects, including the Jews.
Interviewed upon his arrival on the “Ile de France” to take up the duties of his new post. Ambassador Pilipovitch declared: “Leaders of the Polish Republic are striving for a perfect and satisfactory understanding with the Jews in Poland.”
He took exception to the statements attributed to Marshal Pilsudski by Madam Michaelis, in which the former said: “Poland has too many Jews, too many poor and sick Jews. Poland admitted the Jews who were persecuted and expelled from neighboring countries with the result that both the Poles and the Jews suffer, especially since the Jewish inability to do land work is cutting the very ground from under their feet.”
“The Jews in Poland,” the Polish Ambassador said, “like all other Jewish groups are a constructive element in the countries in which they reside and help to build the industrial and economic structure of Poland. Slowly but surely the Jews are becoming an integral part of the social, political and economic life of Poland.” He stated his admiration for the Jewish leadership in Poland.
He expressed the hope that Jewish leaders in America will work hand in hand with him in the interests of the four million Jews in Poland.
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