The Jewish population in the Republic of Poland are following the political crisis which deagain living through days of anxiety veloped yesterday. An uncertain sitution fraught with many possibilities has arisen when the Bartel cabinet, reinstated by President Moscicki, again submitted its resignation which was accepted by the president. The resignation came about when the Diet voted by a majority to approve the reduction in the budget of 500,000 Zlotys made by the Senate despite the insistence of the cabinet. The majority for the reduction was obtained in the Senate with the vote of the Jewish senators. In the Diet the majority against the government was obtained due to the fact that the Jewish deputies refrained from voting.
Various possibilities are being discussed, including one that the president will dissolve the Diet. In the Diet lobby it is rumored that, barring other possibilities, the president with intrust Marshal Pilsudski with ### task of forming a new cabinet.
The vote in the Senate and Diet against the government was due to the fact that the Minister of Education, Sojkowski, and Minister of the Interior, Professor Mlodzianowski, were included in the reinstated cabinet.
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