Proposals to facilitate Jewish emigration from Poland simultaneously with that from the Reich were presented today to various British Government and Jewish organizations by a delegation of Jewish leaders from Poland who arrived in London last night with a special mission following a conference with Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. The delegation includes Chief Rabbi Moses Schorr, Dr. Henry Rosmarin and the prominent Jewish industrialists, Carol Sachs and Anthony Eiger, all of whom are members of the executive of the recently formed Jewish Colonization Society in Poland.
The nature of their mission is so important that they intend to spend a week in London, during which time they will confer on Jewish emigration to Palestine and other overseas lands with Myron C. Taylor, American vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, the Colonial Office, President Chaim Weizmann of the Jewish Agency and important British bodies. Some time later, the group intends to visit America on the same mission.
Headed by Dr. Schorr, the delegation called on Polish Ambassador Raczynski and outlined to him their plans. The Ambassador’s cooperation in bringing the delegation together with government bodies was asked. Later the delegation conferred with Dr. Weizmann.
It is understood that the Schorr group is anxious to secure from the Intergovernmental Committee a promise that the 14,000 Polish Jews deported from Germany be helped to emigrate from Poland on the same basis as the German Jews. This was apparently demanded of the delegation by the Polish Government, now that the latter has agreed that the deportees should not return to the Reich.
The major issue which the delegation is raising in London, however, is that the growing anti-Semitism in Poland can be checked, provided that a certain Jewish emigration from Poland is started for overseas lands. In this connection, it is understood, the Polish Government would be willing even to permit the transfer of Jewish capital to the countries of immigration especially Palestine, under certain conditions and despite existing currency regulations.
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