The Denver Jewish news., 1919-06-18
Peace Conference Will
Solve Jewish Problems
JUDGE MACK RETURNS WITH AS
SURANCES THAT JEWISH MIN.
ORITIES IN EAST EUROPE WILL.
RECEIVE CIVIL. RELIGIOUS
AND POLITICAL GUARANTEES.

cnce Will solve tle JEWISH ITopteIh i'
East Europe. and mt the same time
crafty the aspiration for the establish
ment in Palestine of n National jew
ish Homeland are contained in a state
ment issued by Judge Julian w. Mack,
who has just returned from Europe.
Judge Mack, who was sent to Europe
Iy the American Jewish Congress OF
which he is chairman, was in Paris
elected head of a committee compris-
ing all the demOcra tically chosen Jew
ish delegations to the Peace Confer
ence. This committee thru Mr.. Louis
Marshall and Judge Mack. presented
to the big Four n memorandum set
ting forth Jewish conditions in Pol
AID and ROumania. and the demands
IF the Jewish people for civil, political,
and religious rights. as national min
critics in the new and enlarged states
to be created by the Peace Treaties.
Judge Mack's statement, given out
for publication yesterday is as fol-
lows:
When I left Paris on May 18TH
our Government, as well as some OF
the Associated Powers, were investi-
gating the terrible pogrOms which have
lpen taking place not only in Poland
but in other countries in the East.
Authentic information confirms all that
was reported at the great mass-meet-
ing here in New York May 21st. De-
mails are worse than useless; they
only emphasize the facts and the in
tcntional suppression of the truth. The
Pinsk affair was worse than the Or
tinary pOgrOm; II military commander
whom Henry BrailsfOrd. the distin-
guished English publicist, had aptly
characterized n month before this
event. as utterly unreliable and anti
semitic. exec,ited thirty'seven young
men without any trial on the mere and
umgrounded suspicion that they were
Bolshevists. Since my departure. Mr..
Louis Marshall has presented the
whole story of this and other outrages
in personal interview to President
Wilson. who has the pogrOm situation
Under serious consideration in all of
its aspects.
These frightful atrocities but en-
phasiZe the need of Internal tiOnal pro-
lection of those minOrities in the new
enlarged states of Eastern Europe
which, to quote the phrase of the pro-
posed peace treaty. differ from the
majority in race, Language, or relig-
:on.", The delegation sent by the
American Jewish Congress to Paris
was charged with the duty Of en-
tlcavoring to secure for the national
minOrities in those states equal and
equitable rights as well as to obtain
The same for every individual within
the state, justly entitled thereto, re-
gartlless of race or religion. For the
Jews, individually and collectively. no
more but no less was asked than for
the others. n tr
1.-THE delegation has worked in thoro
cooperation and unison with similar
delegations from Eastern Jewry; a
common platform was adopted: be-
cause of the prepOnderating Influence
of President Wilson in the Councils of
the Conference, the burden of secur'
ing the adoption Of the program in the
Treaty, fell primarily upon the Ameri-
can delegates. To the ability and tire
less energy of Louis Marshall, above
all others, is due the results that will
be perpetuated in the several peace
treaties. 1 am confidenl that these
will secure:
ration. equality and citizenship for the
Jew without the possibility Of misin-
depreciation and evasion such as char
ncteriZed Roumania's dealings under
the treaty of Berlin; citizenship will
he conferred en- bloc, in and by the
Treaty itself.
Second: guarantee for all citi-
zens of those equal civil, religious, and
Iolitical rights that are fun0amentai
in every enlightened state.
Third: protection Of the minority
groups rights in the use of their Ian
guage, in the establishment and main
tenance of their schools and their other
religious and social institutions, with
equitable or proportionate sharing in
the public funds devoted to such p'f'
poses.
Fourth: the international character
of these obligations will be recognized,
and Jurisdiction for their enforce
rlent and protestion will be conferred