Polish immigrants to the United States are of less interest than immigrants to Palestine because the Jewish immigrants from Poland to Palestine have created a center of trade in the Near East which by virtue of new markets opened up can be of great importance to the industrial exporters of Poland, says the “Gazetta Polska,” a quasi official government organ, in commenting on the Palestine situation.
Pointing out that since the economic situation justifies the immigration of new labor, the “Gazetta Polska” says that “the British argument to await Sir John Simpson’s report is unconvincing because it is an obvious contradiction of the Balfour Declaration. The double-edged and uncertain policy is not increasing British prestige in the Near East.”
The fate of Palestine interests Poland not only as an international problem, says the “Gazetta Polska,” but “concerns millions of Polish Jews and therefore Poland cannot remain a mere onlooker but must join in the protest. The support of the Jewish National Home is a matter of interest for the internal and external affairs of the whole Polish Republic.”
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