The Polish Government is doing nothing to improve the Jewish situation in Poland, says the Federation of Polish Jews in America announcing its withdrawal as a body from the Polish-Jewish Goodwill Committee in America. To retain our membership in the Goodwill Committee, the statement, which is signed by Mr. Benjamin Winter, the President of the Federation says, would lead to a distorted view of the Jewish situation in Poland.
Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, the President of the Polish-Jewish Goodwill Committee in America, resigned the Presidency at the end of November, explaining in a letter to the Polish Ambassador, M. Titus Filipowicz, that for two years, since the Federation of Polish Jews in America, acting on his suggestion, had launched the Goodwill movement, he and his associates had been labouring under the most difficult conditions to bring about a rapprochement between Poles and Jews, but he felt that the time had come when the most enthusiastic sentimentalist had to draw the line as to how far he could proceed without betraying the interests of the three million Jews in Poland. We have been told to have patience, he concluded, but I feel that it is not only futile to go on preaching goodwill in vain, but that it would reflect on my sense of duty if I were to remain the head of an abortive movement.
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