A restatement of the right of European minorities to international protection and adoption of a uniform attitude by the Allied governments on the question of property restitution to rightful owners were urged today by the influential weekly newspaper The Economist.
An article in the periodical said it was not too early to restate the right of European minorities to international protection. “Aryanization” had radically changed the economic structure of Eastern Europe, it said, adding that in Poland and the Baltie states tens of thousands of Poles and Balts had sprung into the economic gaps created by the massacre of Jews everywhere and “now powerful interests have arisen which will stubbornly oppose and obstruct every attempt at restitution.”
Discussing the question of restitution, The Economist pointed out that the attitude of the Allied governments on the matter was not uniform. While the Czechoslovak government-in-exile had promised justice to Jews in this respect, Polish policy remained undefined, it said, the Polish government-in-exile “still searching for a territory to which the Jews of Poland could be transferred.”
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