ter extermination by the minority rights clauses written into the Versailles Treaty and implemented in the League of Nations.
The Jews of other states created after the World War, particularly in Eastern Europe, would also feel the effects of such repudiation and would lose many of the rights they now enjoy by virtue of the minority clauses.
BLOW TO GERMAN JEWS
At the same time repudiation would constitute a terrific blow to the German Jews, particularly in Upper Silesia, where Germany has been forced by the League to withdraw anti-Jewish laws and restore ousted Jewish officials and professionals to their posts. That Germany has found the minority protection clauses a burden is well-known.
If Poland should repudiate the minority rights, there is no doubt in well-informed circles that Germany would follow suit and the hard-won victories of the Jews, including the Bernheim petition and the decisions of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission in favor of the Jews, reduced to meaningless phrases.
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