At a conference called by the Polish President for the purpose of considering a proposed measure for the self-government of towns, the Jewish members of the Legislative committees were missing. As developed later, the Jewish Sejm members had not been invited to the conference. The Polish, Jewish paper “Nasz Przeglond” in commenting on the event says that the old, Czaristic principle of “except the Jews” is still the pet idea of the Polish rulers.
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