Jan Stanczyk, Minister of Labour in the Polish Government in exile, tonight expressed the belief that post-war industrialization of Poland would destroy economic anti-Semitism in that country but declared that the problem of Jewish emigration may become actual after the war.
“I know that among world Jewry the fear exists that anti-Semitism may find expression in a liberated Poland,” Stanczyk said tonight in an address before members of the Anglo-Palestine Club. “I am profoundly convinced that it will not.”
He added that he was convinced that economic anti-Semitism would be destroyed by the industrialization of Poland in place of the past one-sided structure of an agricultural country.
“But supposing the problem of Jewish emigration becomes actual after the war,” he said, “it must be settled in closest collaboration of the world Jewish organizations” by making efforts to obtain areas suitable for immigration where the Jews can create the requisite conditions.
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