The Protestant School Board will not oppose the plan for separate Jewish schools in Montreal, provided Protestant school rights are not interfered with, declared Dr. James Smyth, chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, in commenting on the projected government’s Jewish school bill. No opposition would be offered by the Protestants, said Dr. Smyth, if the Jews, despite the benefits their children had enjoyed in the Protestant schools, decided to withdraw them.
As a Canadian citizen, however, he deplored the self-segregation of the Jews as not being in the best interests of either the province or the Dominion or of the Jews themselves. He said too that the Protestants desire to have the entire situation finally clarified at the present session of the provincial legislature. Any settlement, Dr. Smyth declared, must have a degree of permanence.
A Protestant school delegation is going to Quebec City to look after Protestant interests in connection with the Jewish school bill.
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