A resolution calling on the Polish Government to check anti-Semitic excesses and halt discrimination against Jews was adopted yesterday at a rally of the Federation of Polish Jews in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Similar meetings were held in Boston, Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo.
Jeremiah T. Mahoney, the principal speaker, asked the Government to “assure to its Jewish citizens the full protection guaranteed them by the fundamental law of the Republic and by international treaty.”
He asserted: “There cannot be any doubt that Nazi Germany is making a strenuous effort to transplant into the Polish Republic its unspeakable anti-Semitism.”
Other speakers were Benjamin Winter, president of the federation; Abraham Goldberg, Zionist leader; Rabbi Louis Seltzer, secretary of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, and Z. Tygel, director of the federation.
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