Deputy Rymer, a member of the antisemitic National Democratic Party, wanted to know to-day in the discussion in Parliament on the budget of the Foreign Ministry what was the meaning of M. Filipowicz, the Polish Ambassador in America, and other Polish representatives abroad, making reassuring statements to the Jews abroad about the position of the Jews in Poland and the Government’s intentions, which were in conflict with the statements made by the Government itself at home.
He wanted to know in particular what right M. Zbyszowski had to declare that the autonomy of the Polish Universities was being abolished, when the home Government was giving them assurances that it had no such intention.
Deputy Dr. Rosmarin, speaking on behalf of the Club of Jewish Deputies, complained that the anti-Jewish excesses and the anti-Jewish boycott movement in Poland are on similar lines to the Hitlerist campaign in Germany and are doing a great deal of harm to Polish prestige abroad. The numerus clausus schemes which are being pressed by the Pan-Polish Party, thinking to ride into power on the wave of support the measure would secure, cannot pass without rousing grave concern among world democracy, Dr. Rosmarin said. If the autonomy of the Universities exist only to give freedom to the students to beat Jews, it will be impossible, Deputy Rosmarin said, to find any sympathy abroad for such autonomy.
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