The Polish National Council at Angers last week heard a bitter attack against the American Jewish Congress delivered by Vice-Chairman Taduscz Bielecki, who was a leader of the anti-Semitic Endek party in pre-war Poland.
Dr. Bielecki assailed the Congress and its president, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress, for speeches they made at the February 10 session of the American Jewish Congress in Washington.
He took particular exception to an address by Dr. Goldmann in which, outlining post-war Jewish policy, Dr. Goldmann urged limitation of sovereignty of certain countries after the war by placing them under control of the League of Nations as a guarantee of better protection for national minorities. Although Dr. Goldmann did not mention Poland or any other country in his speech, but spoke in general terms, Dr. Bielecki interpreted it as aimed at the sovereignty of a restored Poland.
Dr. Bielecki’s attack is published in full in the current issue of Glos Polski, official organ of the Polish Government-in-exile. Replying to the attack, Dr. Ignacy Schwarzbard, Jewish member of the Council, expressed surprise that Dr. Bielecki had made a parliamentary issue of Dr. Goldmann’s speech since it had made no mention of Poland.
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