A charge that the Soviet authorities are not allowing Jewish refugees in Russia, who formerly resided in the section of Poland occupied by the Soviet Army in 1939, to emigrate to Palestine on the basis that they are considered Soviet citizens was made today in the Polish National Council by Dr. Ignacy Schwartzbart, Zionist deputy. Dr. Schwartzbart urged the Council to protest against this procedure to the Soviet government.
During the debate Zofia Zeleska, a representative of the anti-Semitic Endek party, expressed strong opposition to the demands for Jewish equality in post-war Poland voiced in the Council last week by the two Jewish deputies, Dr. Schwartzbart and Semuel Zygelbaum.
A sharp attack on anti-Semitic tendencies prevalent among certain sections of the Polish groups in exile was made in the Council today by Adam Ciolkosz, Polish Socialist deputy. He declared that his party opposed anti-Semitism in any form and that “Poland could exist as a state only in a world of freedom and under conditions of absolute equality for all nationalities within the country.”
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