The World Jewish Congress demanded today that the League of Nations provide greater protection for national minorities when and if the League’s covenant is revised.
In a memorandum to the League’s committee for studying the application of the principles of the covenant, the Congress’ executive stressed the necessity “to re-establish the position compromised by anti-Semitic agitation.”
Emphasizing that the Congress represents millions of Jews in countries members and non-members of the League, the committee said the Jewish situation in several member states and even countries signatory to treaties guaranteeing minority protection no longer correspond with the League’s stipulation.
Without mentioning Germany by name, the memorandum assorted that one of the reasons for the increasing violent anti-Jewish agitation which has shaken the League’s national minority guarantees “is the undoubtedly powerful propaganda carried on in every part of the world by a powerful state.”
The memorandum asked that a revised covenant include provisions procuring minorities protection by all League members and requiring countries seeking to join the League to accept the obligations guaranteeing equal ethnic, public, religious and other rights to national minorities.
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