New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

Request to Peace Council.
 The following is the resolution adopted by the congres:
 Resolved, That the American Jew lsh congress respectfully requests tho peace conference to insert in the treaty of peace as conditions precer dent to the creation of the new or en- larged states which it is proposed to call into being that express provision
 be made 8 part of the constitutions o1 such states before they shall be final ly recognized as states by the sigma tories of the treaty, as follows:
 1. All inhabitants of the territory of -----~-, including such persona together with their families, who subsequent to August 1. 1914, fled, re- moved. or were expelled therefrom, and who shall, within ten years from the adoption of this provision, returs thereto, shall for all purposes be citi. zens thereof, provided. however, that such as have heretofore been subjects of other states, who desire to retain their allegiance to such states or as- sune allegiance to their successor states to the exclusion of citizenship may do so by a formal declaration to be made within Q specified period.
 2. For a period of ten years from the adoption of this provision no adoption shall be enacted restricting any former inhabitant of state which included the territory Of ------------ from taking up his resi- dence in ---- and thereby ac- quiriag citizenship therein.
 3. All citizens of ----. with out distinction as to race, nationality or creed, shall enjoy equal, civil, DO. litical, religious and national rights, and no law shall be enacted or ea. forced which shall abridge the privt- Ieges or immunities of, or impose upon any person, any discrimination. disability, or restriction whatsoever on account of race, nationality or re- ligion, or deny to any person the equal protection of the laws.
 4. The principle of minority rep resentation shall be provided for by law.
 ,. The mem mbers of the various na- tional as well as religious bodies ot
 shall be accorded autolo- nous management of their own com munal institutions, whether they be educational, charitable or 
 6. No law shall be enacted re- saricting the use of any language, and all existing laws declaring such pro- hibition are repealed, nor shall any language test be established.
 '. Those who observe any other than the first day of the week their Sabbath shall not be prohibited from pursuing their secular affairs oD any day other than that which they observe; nor shall they be required to perform any acts on their Sabbath or holy days which they shall regard as a desecration thereof.
 Louis Marshall, chairman of the American Jewish committee, who to- gether with Judge Julian Mack, has had considerable correspondence with the Polish national department and the Polish national defense commit tee in reference to the pogrorns and of the Jews in Poland was made chairman of the committee on Poland.
 MT. Marshall reported to the con- gross his efforts to come to some agreement with the oPlish represeu- atives in this country and that after conference and Corre- spondence an agreement had been reached to have a commission of six, of two Poles, two Jews and two American members to in- vestigate the reports of massacres in Poland. The congress approved ot this course and authorized Louis Marshall and Judge Julian Mack to designate the two Jewish members of the commission and arrange t1nal de- tails.
 In the letter sent from the congress to the Polish organization it was said in part:
 Numerous reports from Sweden, England and other countries describing serious pogroms and mas ! sacres in Poland and Galicia directed against the Jews are so circumstantial and emanate from the sources of such high standing and responsibility that one cannot doubt the trustWor- thiness of the information"
 The letter also said that the con- ceded fact that during the last six years a boycott of unparalleled ran cor and bitterness, and of such huge as to precipitate an en- ire people into the depths of misery, 1as been increasingly Waged against che Jews of Poland, afford moral 1 proof of the probability that the ! charges are true.'
 The whole record of the congress ! is full of achievement but perhaps he greatest accomplishments of the merican Jewish congress was the l adoption of the resolution for a uni ! yersal Jewish congress and the fol- 1 owing Palestine resolution which l caused the greatest demonstration turing the entire program:
 Resolved, That the American Jew ! sh congress instruct their delegation ! % Europe to cooperate with the rep l of other Jewlsh organi l lations and specifically with the world ! Zionist organizations and historic ! claims of the Jewish people with re ! gard to Palestine, and declare that ir l with the British govern l nent's declaration of November l