The Board of Deputies of British Jews was urged today by its members to apply active political pressure, to assist Polish Jewry and to organize economic measures to relieve the Jew there such relief will come too late.
The situation of the 3,500,000 Jews in Poland was discussed heatedly and at length by the Board of Deputies.
President Neville Laski, who was in Poland recently, promised that the Polish Jewish problem would be given the same consideration accorded the German Jewish question. He declared that an appeal would be made for funds for Polish Jewry, “notwithstanding the serious obligations we owe to the German Jews and the fact that we may be compelled to launch a new appeal for funds if there is a new flood of refugees from the Saar plebiscite area.”
“Our debate here is enough of an indication both to foreign government and to all friends of the Jews that the Board of Deputies is fully aware of the problems that confront the Jews,” the Anglo-Jewish leader declared.
Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, once more called the attention of the Board to the fight of the Protestant church in Germany against Hitlerism.
“We say that the whole of Nazism is based on slander and lies,” he declared. “The fight of the church in Germany has opened the eyes of many Germans to the fact that the ousted pastors were loyal citizens. The future may also open the eyes of all Germans to the fact that the Jews of Germany are also loyal and faithful German citizens.”
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