A sensational report that representatives of the Polish government would hold a joint conference with representatives of all Jewish groups to improve the relations between the Jews and the government, was termed here today as “complete invention.”
“Nothing is known to me about such a conference,” Dr. Joshua Thon, the president of the Jewish Parliamentary Club, stated. “The entire report is probably an invention. Authoritative Jewish quarters that should surely be informed of an alleged Polish-Jewish conference, have no knowledge of it whatever.”
The report of the “peace conference” between Jewish representatives and the Polish government was apparently circulated in connection with the open friction that has reached such proportions that the Jewish members of the Polish Parliament were compelled officially to record in Parliament the charge that the Jewish population in Poland is highly dissatisfied with the policy of the present government to attempt to reduce the Jews to poverty by overtaxation and discrimination against them in public and State service.
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