It is not a question of minority rights, as M. Lange said, but of a Jewish National Home, a new judicial conception, different from and much more far-reaching than any minority rights, the Polish Representative, M. Muehlstein, (who, too, spoke at the session of the Sixth Commission held in September 1929 referred to by M. Lange, when, on behalf of the Polish Government, he expressed sympathy with the victims of the Palestine outbreak, pointing out that Poland has a Jewish population of three million and is therefore greatly interested in the Jewish situation in Palestine), said in continuing the discussion on the Palestine Mandate at to-day’s meeting of the Sixth Commission.
Poland is interested in the Jewish National Home. M. Muehlstein said, because a large proportion of Poland’s population are Jews, and a large proportion of the Jews of Palestine are of Polish origin. For this reason, he said, he welcomed the efforts which had been made by Great Britain to pacify the country, and the success which it had achieved in this direction. He also welcomed the development of a constitutional Government system for Palestine and the projected establishment of a representative legislative body there, but he demanded that assurances should be given that nothing would be done in consequence which would affect the right of development of the Jewish population.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
