Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-11-25
AMERICAN JEWISH
COMMITTEE HOLDS
ANNUAL MEETING
Louis Marshall Reelected
President; Schwartzbard
Case Taken Up
REPORT ON STATUS
OF ROUMANIA JEWS
Marshall Describes Efforts to
Obtain Rights for European
Co-Religionists
tJewIsh Telegraphic Agency

New York-The persecution of the
Jews of Roumania was one of the
chief topics Of discussion at the Twen-
tieth Annual meeting of the American
Jewish committee held on Sunday at
the Hotel McAlpin, New York. Louis
Marshall, the President, was in the
chair and o. representatives from va
rious parts of the country were in at
tendance. Besides taking up the con-
dition of the Jews In various countries.
the committee also discussed the United
States Immigration and Naturalization
laws and went on record MS favoring
legislation, now pending in Congress,
for the admission Of the wives and
minor children OF alasnS now In this
country who have taken ont their first
papers.
MarshalIs Note
Mr. Marshall read a memorandum
which he presented last December to
Nicholas Titelescu, head of the Rou-
manian Debt Funding commission then
In this country. calling attention to the
virulent anti-Semitic movement going
on in ROumania and which the govern
ment apparently is making no attempt
to suppress. 1--WE find that, for sew
eral years past" wrote Mr.. Marshall.
there has been an open, notorious and
s,st tttap Il
against the Jews, with the accompani-
ment of an attack upon their religion
in the form of gross libels, of assaults
upon their person, and destruction of
their property, and of agitation looking
to their deprivation of fundamental
rights. including that of securing edu-
cation and of earning livelihood.
These acts have not been sporadic, but
they have been systematic"
Crime Unchecked
Nobody has been prosecuted for these
crimes, the memorandum goes on to
state No protection has been afforded
to the Jews who have been placed in
peril of their lives and who are daily
subject to repetition of the violent
attacks that have been made upon them.
Mr.. Solomon Sufrin of New York, who
attended the meeting as representa-
tive of the Union of Roumanian Jews
ber of cases of illtreatment of Jews
which came under his notice during n
recent visit to Roumania.
Attention was called by Judge Julian
W. Mack to the fact that not only Jews
but also Baptists, Unitarians and Cath
olics were oppressed in Roumania, al
though these other sects were not per-
secuted as cruelty or as extensively as
are the Jews.
Brighter in Poland
The political outlook is much brighter
In Poland, says the Committees re-
port. The present cabinet shows every
desire to treat the Jews and other
minorities justly and impartially. I'm
fortunately, at the present moment
political conditions there are in state
of fuX and the attendant uncertainty
cannot bode good for the business life
of the country. In Russia only one
third of the Jewish population of
3,OOO,OOO have any truly dependable
sources of livelihood. These comprise
about $4,000 who are dependent on
members of trade unions and another
10000 engaged in agriculture. This
condition explains the drift back to the
land which began about three years
ago and which the American Jewish
community is endeavoring to support
through the Joint Distribution COM
mittcc.