The Polish Information Service devotes a four-page press bulletin to arguing that the problem of the Jews in Poland cannot be alleviated by “vituperative speeches of professional Jewish leaders,” protest meetings and “inflammatory articles in the press.” It calls for the yielding of “the championship of the Jewish cause to economists and cool-headed businessmen.”
While protest meetings create sympathy for the Polish Jews “or possibly even of condemnation for those who are said to oppress them,” the bulletin says, the problem will continue to be grave. The “Jewish problem” is attributed not to a “more or less natural antipathy” of a majority to a differing minority, but to conflicting economic interests.
“Various ways have been suggested for the solution of this difficult problem,” the bulletin states. “Increased facilities for emigration, a better availability of raw materials, a greater industrial progress in Poland, increased exports — all these can form the elements of a constructive plan of relief. In an atmosphere of goodwill and mutual understanding a satisfactory solution may easily be found.”
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