FOREIGN-FINANCED JEW-BAITING IS ASSUMING ANNIHILATING PROPORTIONS IN POLAND AND RUMANIA AND MAKING LIFE UNSAFE FOR THE JEWS, HERBERT J. SELIGMAN, OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, REPORTED TODAY AFTER HIS RETURN FROM A TOUR OF INVESTIGATION IN THESE COUNTRIES.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S ADDRESS INSPIRED HOPE AMONG LIBERAL ELEMENTS IN POLAND AND RUMANIA, WHO CONSIDER THE INDEFINITUDE OF THE SITUATION THERE AS TANTAMOUNT TO A GROWTH OF TOTALITARIANISM, MR. SELIGMANN EMPHASIZED IN A PRESS CONFERENCE ARRANGED FOR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS.
DECLARING THAT ANTI-SEMITISM HAD MADE GREAT HEADWAY IN POLAND WHILE IN RUMANIA FEW DARED TO OPPOSE ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA, HE SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE MORE THAN 4,000,000 JEWS IN THESE COUNTRIES NEEDED RELIEF.
MR. SELIGMANN, WHOSE ADDRESS WAS REPLETE WITH PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS, WAS PRECEDED BY DAVID J. SCHWEITZER, EUROPEAN VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, WHO EXPLAINED THE ACTIVITIES THE J.D.C. IS CARRYING ON IN BEHALF OF THE JEWS.
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