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Renewed demands for elimination of Jews from the nation’s economic life and for mass emigration of Jews from Poland were voiced in Parliament today during a general debate in the Lower House on the budget. The demands were made by members of the Government Camp of National Unity and the extreme right, and were supported by Gen. Stanislas Skwarczynski, Camp leader.
Replying, Jewish Deputy Ignacy Schwartzbardt of Krakow asserted that anti-Semitism rather than the Jews, was dangerous to Poland and said the Jews would never give up their demands for equal rights. On the question of emigration, the deputy said that 184,000 Jews had emigrated from Poland in the last ten years, but the problem, he added, was not now being discussed from the economic viewpoint but was merely being used for anti-Semitic propaganda.
Declaring elimination of Jews from Poland’s economic life was not due to economic necessity but to anti-Semitic tendencies, Schwartzbardt concluded that the Jews would never allow themselves to be ousted from the country’s life and would continue to cooperate with other sections of the population for the benefit of the Polish State. His speech was continually interrupted by anti-Semites. the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, stressing the benefits which would accrue from closer cooperation between the committee and the High Commission and proposing that this cooperation might be made more effective by uniting the functions of director of the committee and the High Commission in the same person, while maintaining the separate and independent existence of the two organizations, and inviting Sir Herbert Emerson to accept the office of director of the committee on the understanding that he devote his best efforts to carrying out the two mandates entrusted to him so that the activities of the office of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees and the services of the League of Nations will be complementary, while remaining distinct.
“Robert Pell, the present assistant director of the committee, was appointed vice-director, having, in the absence of the director, its executive authority and responsibility for carrying out its decisions.
“The committee, after winding up its pending routine business, adjourned.”
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