The Jewish Economic Committee for Poland is perturbed by the report that the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris intends to set up an Economic Council in Warsaw.
In a communication sent to the Paris organization, the Jewish Economic Committee directed attention to the fact that it includes representatives of all sections of the population engaged in Jewish economic activity in this country.
Any attempt to create a parallel institution, it was stated, “can only divert the attention of Jewish and Polish public opinion and do incalculable harm to the economic consolidation of Polish Jewry.”
CONCENTRATION OF INFORMATION
Former Senator Raphael Szereszewski, interviewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on this question, said a central organization would be desirable.
“We should remember,” he asserted, that in the present changing conditions we cannot know what the morrow will bring.
“It would be most useful, therefore, to concentrate all authoritative information concerning the position of the Jewish populations in the various countries.
“The need for such an institution is demonstrated by the fact that it is essential to have such material available for any attempt that may be made to start an economic aid campaign in behalf of the Jews of any country.”
President Mazur of the local Jewish community said a “positive attitude “should be adopted in regard to the proposal to create a Jewish Economic Council.
“Such a body, in a period of acute crisis like the present, which afflicts the great masses of the Jewish population, is essential and useful.” he declared.
DEAL WITH PROBLEMS
“The principal task of the Economic Council should be to deal with the economic problems of Polish Jewry and the efforts to solve these problems without, of course, excluding political questions if they are organically bound up with the economic questions.
“Certainly a vigorous economic aid work should be started on behalf of the Jewish population, which has been terribly hard hit by the crisis. Continued passiveness in the face of the situation would be unforgivable.”
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