Says Latvia, Esthonia Only Two European Lands Giving Jewish Minorities Subventions

The minority peoples all over Europe have lost confidence in the League of Nations, declared Rabbi Dr. Nurok, deputy in the Latvian Parliament, yesterday, in a speech at the concluding session of the 27th conference of the Inter-parliamentary Union. His speech made a deep impression and was warmly applauded. Among those who congratulated Dr. Nurok on his speech was President Loebe of the German Reichstag.

The Jewish minority in Eastern Europe, said Dr. Nurok, enjoys cultural autonomy and receives government subventions only in two small countries, Latvia and Esthonia, whereas in all other countries the Jews have lost the minority rights which they gained immediately after the war. While the minority peoples of Europe have many complaints which ought to be brought before the League of Nations, Rabbi Nurok continued, they hesitate to do so, because the League regards the minorities question too lightly and therefore the minorities themselves have lost confidence in the League.

JEWS HAVE NO HOMELAND

Regarding the Palestinian question, Dr. Nurok said that the position of Jews was different from that of other minorities, because while other minorities have a centre which is their homeland, such is not the case with the Jews, who have no homeland and who suffer everywhere without the hope of a protecting centre being held out to them.

After recalling the recent events in Palestine, Deputy Nurok stated that Jews still hope that Great Britain will fulfill its obligations under the Palestine Mandate and will help to create a Jewish National Home. Dr. Nurok then appealed to the parliamentarians present to help solve the problem of forty million people in Europe who constitute the minority groups.

Among other Jewish parliamentarians who have been attending the sessions of the Inter-parliamentary Union are Congressman Sol Bloom of the United States, Deputy M. Kentridge of South Africa and Deputy Rosmarin of Poland.