Foreign Minister Jozef Beck told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee today that “preventative” action to find territories for Jewish emigration must be taken before the emigration problem has become “actual.” Col. Beck, who last week reached a joint policy on Jewish emigration with Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu, is leaving for London for conversations with the British Government in which the emigration question will play an important role.
“Simultaneously with existing difficulties, the political and psychological aspects of the problem are becoming more accentuated,” he declared, stressing the necessity of drawing the attention of Intergovernmental Refugee Committee powers to the necessity of early action. “The problem will be directed into the proper channels and its difficulties will be diminished, provided there is goodwill by the countries having territories for immigration and collaboration by the Jews themselves,” he said.
Meanwhile, plans were made for a two-week “meatless period” by the Polish Jews, beginning this week, in protest against the impending ban on kosher slaughter. Despite the Government’s prohibition on publicity for the meatless period, Jewish newspapers published an announcement of the Rabbinical Association’s Executive Committee including poultry and smoked meat under the foods not to be eaten. A Committee for Defense of Shechita was established with all Jewish groups except Socialists participating.
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