Israel Krohn was re-elected president of the Eason, Pa., Y.M.H.A. at the annual meeting of the board of directors. Nathan Spiegel and Reuben Moss were elected vice-presidents, and Louis M. Ralph was re-elected treasurer. The new directors elected were Max Horn, Emanuel Siegel and Samuel Levine. The annual cerebration will be held during the week of February 19th, it was decided.
Ambassador Stanislow Patek, the new Polish envoy to the United States, arrived here aboard the Aquitania to assume his new duties. Ambassador Patek, who comes to Washington after six years as Polish envoy in Moscow, succeeds Tytus Filipowicz.
In his first interview upon arrival, Ambassador Patek expressed to a representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency his deep regret that the recent anti-Semitic excesses should have occurred and stated his conviction that a repetition of the riots would not be tolerated by the authorities. At the same time he let it be known that he considers himself a sincere friend of the Jews.
The Polish Ambassador sought to dispel the impression which has gained currency abroad that Polish Jewry suffers from discrimination and that its lot is exceedingly hard.
Letters received by him from Jewish friends in Poland during his stay in Moscow stated that Jews were not finding living difficult, Ambassador Patek stated. “American Jews,” he said, “should not be perturbed concerning the situation of their fellow Jews in Poland. Their position is not as bad as is believed here. I believe that a more reserved attitude abroad would help to improve relations between Jews and non-Jews in Poland.”
Returning to the subject of the excesses which occurred at the end of November and early in December of 1932, Ambassador Patek explained that he was not in Poland at the time. He emphasized, however, that the government had done everything within its power to curb the rioters. A more drastic attitude on the part of the government, at the beginning of the excesses, would have served only to enrage the rioters further, he said.
The new Polish Ambassador is sixty-six years old and has had a distinguished diplomatic career. He first attained prominence in 1905 as defense counsel for the political prisoners arrested in connection with the Russian Revolution of 1905.
After the world war, when Poland attained its independence, he represented his country at the Paris Peace Conference. From 1919 to 1920 he served as Polish Foreign Minister. From 1921 to 1926, he served as Polish Ambassador to Japan, after which he assumed the Moscow post.
Israel Krohn was re-elected president of the Eason, Pa., Y.M.H.A. at the annual meeting of the board of directors. Nathan Spiegel and Reuben Moss were elected vice-presidents, and Louis M. Ralph was re-elected treasurer. The new directors elected were Max Horn, Emanuel Siegel and Samuel Levine. The annual cerebration will be held during the week of February 19th, it was decided.
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