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Polish Government Given Special Powers by Sejm

June 21, 1936
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The Sejm yesterday adopted a bill granting special powers to the Government, with only the Jewish deputies voting contrary.

Deputy Minczberg abstained from voting after a bitter speech on the position of the Jews in which he demanded that the Government make a public statement on the economic campaign being waged against the Jews.

He revealed that he had spoken to Premier Felicjan Skladkowski about his recent statement that the Government could not halt the economic campaign against the Jews and that the Premier had expressed his determination to end the unsafe position of the Jews.

A strong anti-Jewish address was delivered by Deputy Sikorski, who inveighed against the “excessive number of Jews in Poland,” holding that it acted destructively against the State. He added that peasants’ attacks on Jews were a measure of self-defense.

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