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POLAND AND THE JEWS. SENSATIONAL STATEMENT.
FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT AT WARSAW.
PEACE CONFERENCE AND
STATE SOVEREIGNTY...
THORNY PROBLEM,
(PROSI PERCEVAL LANDON.Į
Au interesting debate took place in the The time has now come when the ther. Seym recently. The House was crowded, -niest of all diplomatic matters the re-members of the Allied Mission being
tention or modification of the absolute; sovereignty of the individual States has been brought up at the Council table of the Allies in a way, that admits of no farther evasion un postponeNBENT.
present, together with their diplomatic' representativ The matter under diss cussion was the Jewish gestion, and U. every deputy was in
his place. Korfanty, in a very moderate and well M. "Bratiapo has abandoned the con- argued speech, mard a resolution, caft ference because the Alliw propose, in the ing un-the juvernment ta set its house last resort, to subunit the rights of minor order. The exact terms ran as fol"} rities in the newly sicquired territories of lows Romania to the supervision of the League of Nations. There is no doubt that the Retion of the Premier of Roumania repre-
sens a feeling of protest which is widely spread, at least among the smaller Powers represented at the Conference, and the matter can no longer be ignored. Now that the question has once been started. we are likely to hear a weary deal of it befope it is set to rest..
„PROTECTION OF Misokerias.
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That this, Hone desires the Govern ment to take auch steps as may be necess
prevent aux pytbreak against tho Jewish population, it at the same time the importance of protecting the Polish population from Jewish Bolshevik intrigues. The Ses malso requiries the Gov. ernments to refute the slanders the Polish people in relation to alleged
which hav
Tirculated
thhe si bude a
The member from t pper Silesin, in a clear and resonant veler, begna by de the present relations between the It may simplify the distter of the pre-ploring t
and very emphatic tection of the Jews in the newly-formed dew, and the Pales, Central European Stabs is taken as an ally denounced the anti. Semitic demon- illustration. This protection to be afford.strations with bad taken, place, pat ne
painted out that those relations founded on certain historie and economic Farts which were too often lost sight of in the discussion. He said:
N
ed tis minorities is not, of course, restrict. ed to Jews, nor do the rights of mino- rities for more than a small part of the issues, but the issue has this been raised theshewsofarm the most influential of the minorities in question, and it is through Jowish energy and organisation that the clagg has been admitted by the Your. As against the throny of an infringement of sovereignty, the Jewish claim is that such
interference with savereign rights behalf of minurities has been 'n chirue ceristic of international settlements for a hundred years, and that a new precedent is created by making the League of Nations trustee on their behalf at the pre- sent nest. Against this intention the sunter Stars point out that, as a matter of fact, the stipulations referred to by the Jews have in every case proved to be a dead-letter. The high contracting parties have never found it possible or corivenient to interfere effectively to secure the rights minorities. They huld; too, that it is at apen infringement of the severeignty of the newly created States, and the thin end of an attempt to impose upon certain of the members of the League a super
Were
Hire, in Poland the greater part of tour tråde. I do not say our cominerec, is in the hands of the Jews. They have always made a.considerable pruft out of the Polish popriation, and
and war, contijs tipas ge them an opportunity to make more. They have profiteered to an ex-
extent, t tortionate
and have lowered täe standard of commercial murality in the
E proces say again that the majoriy
our traders are Jews. There is an the reason for the feeling injury (among our pitted against the Poles
and excesses com in Rusia by the Bolshevika. The whole Bolshevik
of
- allude to the crymes
Lovernment is
is in the hands
the Jews. The majority of the officials
The whole Jews
policy is brected and informed by Jewish brains, and the salient point of that policy has been the persecution of che Poles in Russia, and the dissemination of Bolshevik doctrines in Poland. Not a ty passes without the discovery of a bolshevik organisation run Jews. We read ach morning in the Press that stores of arms have been found
- in Jewish that a Bolshevik Press
sovereignty that will end in destroying has been used always the Präss
Lastly, they its Fast hope of success point out that no one of the Great Powers Kiti be affected by the proposal-la sbort, that it is another injustice to the smaller So it will be seen that between these points of view there is little room tor compromise.
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18 in the hands of a Jew. 1 do not pro- pose to indict the whole Jewish race. The commissaries have had a very strong effect upon the minds of the Polish people. It must also be remembered that
commissaries have suc-TJILATJAP numbers of these ceeded in
Fro wen and recognised in TJIKINI .... soustry where they have attempted to
They toment treachers.
received the TJIMANOEK Germans with shouts of w
welcomection and વરાહપૂર Kere appointed agents for the
TJIPANAS". of inetal and other requisitions. memory of the people is still quivering with their watering under the German occupation and it is not in human ma- ture to forget the part played by the Jews during that time. i cannot repeat too often
Cargo taken with too great emphasis that sir
↓, demonstra reprobate these anti-Semitic the Jews in Poland are the victims of tis urged that na. When, however, it is
of savage and irrational hate critical importance to state the truth, nad to unmask the lies which have gained Lanch wide publicity that here in Poland
dreds ut
But the matter must be viewed from n higher standpoint. We are today on the threshold of a new régime. The many- generations old conception of sovereignty in its technical and absolute form has un- consciously suffered modification, and we have all been brought to know that if there is to be any real achievement of peace un earth the old tradition of sovereignty will have to suffer some further modification still. A great deal of the 'dispute centres an words rather than facts. The course of the Conference itself has done much to endrald theories of national equality, and it would be both renasuring and to the benefit of all concerned if the many admitted infringements of State Sovere ignty in the past were regarded as a fair precedent for a small further surrender death. not
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SUCCESS OF THE LEAGUE
In the formation of the League" of Nations began nature was at the begin ning somewhat rudely forked out by pure idealism, but she has returned with ten- fold strength, and, indeed, seems likely to have the last word in the great issue,
tions.
it becomes
have been done to
M. Korfanty concluded his speech with a most sensational announcement. stated that he had evidence of the exist Fence of an agreement come to between the Bermah Government in November Jast and the Jews. Under this agreement the Jews undertook to du everything possible Actitious reports as to pogroms to, with a view to creating a hos tile opinion against Poland and a
pos sibh reaction in favour of Germany
it was argued. ruight result
in
If this minor question of the protection This Pification of the peace terms in
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in
regard to the territory to be given to the Polish State.
tate. The speech created a pro- found impression, and was supported from all sides of the House.
Munter Diamand, a prominent Jewish deputy, contested the statement that the Bolshevik Government was organised by Jews. He insisted that the fact that there were a number of Jews in prominent positions, was an argument in favour of Jewish autonomy in Poland.
of minorities is handled untactfully at this moment, the harm done may be far greater than any risk of injustice to small communities. It seems probable that the League of Nations itself will suffer not only by the possible abstention of some of the smaller Powers, but also by the encouragement of an atmosphere of mutual mistrust within its Council chambers-and that would be infinitely more deplorable than any abstention. Lord Robert Cecil has repeatedly, and rightly, assured the waiting world that in its confidence, iterable majority. goodwill, and its determination to make the League a success is the only hope of making the new assembly the guardian and truster of human happiness,
We have at this moment a state of political and religious antagonism in Poland which the acceptance of the Polish treaty of June 28th. has not helped to modify. Though it was ic that particular case., more than elsewhere, that the Coun. cil of Four sought to guarantee the Jews from injustice. Turning our eyes to Rou mania, we find that one of the steadicat and sapest patriots and Premiers in Europe bas left the Congress. rather than. be a party to the imposition upon his country of just suc another treaty as that which Poland has nominally accepted. The question of sovereignty has, indeed been raised, and it is useless new to speak of it ty though it were not of vital and immediate importance. Sooner or later—- and the sooner the better-the one great problem that affects the future of the League of Nations must be grasped with firmness and settled with 'ñqality,
"A CLEAR-CUT PROBLEM.
The resolution was passed by a consid
about nothing else. No solution is pos sible that does not satisfy-and, it must be added, completely satisis our sensi tive Transatlantic cousins. Now that the terms of peace with Germany are out of the way, the greatest of all. questions re maining to be dealt with at the Peace Conference must be faced. No mere word will help us on this occasion. We are front to front with a clear-out problem. Must we still be the slayer of out-of-date convention 1 ,"4"
In the past, diplomatic Ection of absolute | sovereignty has survived open, frequent, and somitted restrictions What, indeed, is any treaty but a public sufferance on the one side, as on the other, of a diminu tion of a State's complete sovereignty? It has now become a matter of urgency to find out whether, for the benefit of the antire world, that technically, complete sovereignty may not in theory still sar- vive the guidance of its destiny in certain limited directions by a power which, we must remember, will find joint action an difficult as ever, and which each State will have full liberty to influence in its This is the question to own interests.
I have so far referred to the question as if it chiefly affected the old world and THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. its traditional troubles. But it must not which an answer will have to be given No.1 he forgotten that under whatever aspect within a few weeks-even within a few Na. 2.
it may present itself, and by whatever days. In conclusion, it is not to be No. 3 avenue it may be approached, the real
dispute that is now going on in the United forgotten that by no means whatever can we renounco rendonsibility for the results States over the League of Natiom is a
of our own deliberato action-even when dispute about national sovereignty and that action is the creation of sovereign
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