The Jewish population of Poland does not feel itself superfluous and does not wish to be evacuated, Otto D. Telischus said today in the fourth of a series of Warsaw dispatches to the New York Times. Accordingly they offer two solutions to the Jewish problem.
These solutions, the report said, are: first, restoration of the equal rights guaranteed them in the minorities treaties, which Poland has suspended, and second, land reform to take care of the rural population.
Jews cite figures that there is plenty of room for all in supporting the first solution. As to the second, Jewish spokesmen see the land-hungry peasant population looking menacingly toward the big estates to save which, Jewish spokesmen charge, their owners seek to divert the peasants by inciting them against the Jews.
“Either the big estates will go or the Jews will perish,” one Jewish spokesman was quoted as saying.
The article paid tribute to Jewish charity, specifically to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in “a valiant, if almost hopeless struggle against human misery.”
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