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resolutions. And inasmuch as the con-
Contrary to the fears of those who
ference represented about 3h,000,000
feared the calling of this conference, Europeans, this attitude counts for
it took place without damaging the something in the future development
peace of Europe or the security of the of peace. The speakers all took the
minorities themselves, and perhaps
attitude that the minorities are con-
contrary to the hopes of those who
to remain such in the frame of
called it into being, it ran its course tent
their new homelands, that they were
and passed resolutions without setting not gathered, negatively, to air their
anything; on foot that might be called private griefs—although the tenipta-
a crusade for national justice.
lion in many CUM'S was severe, and
1 attended the conference, which the gavel of the chairman was kept
took place Oct. 1.1-16, at Geneva. busy—but they saw a genuine peace
About 50 delegates, representing 12 for Europe only in the recognition of
nationalities, divided into 33 groups the right of each national group to
from 1.1 states, and comprising about maintain its cultural individuality.
35 million Europeans, took three days They plead for honest, tolerant, co-op-
to pass four resol 'ons which had eration between majority and minor-
been drawn up in ad ante. The four
ntra
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days were necessary in order to allow ay in every
land. Amid
ilks,•
louse M agolies emphasized the fact
every delegate to make the speech he p that the best service the minorities
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could render their own cause lay in 01102
make an impression on the press, influencing their former motherlands
which latter, with Loearno running at to treat their own minorities justly.
the same time, was a little difficult. It was well for the Poles to fight for
The Jewish groups were as follows: their minority rights in Lithuania,
Lithuanian Jews, represented by Dep- but it would he equally well, if not bet-
uty Robinson of Kovno, an exceeding- ter, if they fought as hard to convince
ly intelligent man, who is deeply con- Poland to treat her minorities (which
cerned in the present Lithuanian mess include Lithuanians) also justly .
over minorities; Polish Jews repre- There is practical political wisdom in
sented first by Senator Kerner and this for every minority, save, alas, the
Deputies Weinzicher and Silberschai n Jews, who have no motherland (as
of the Kolo or Jewish ParliamentJay yet) to influence. Every speaker em-
Club, second by Deputy Gruenhaum of phasized the necessity for nationalist
the Opposition to the Kolo, and third- tolerance. Deputy Gruenbaum made
ly, by Deputy Prilutzski, whom non e a speech, as an example I suppose of
Two and Four-Family
of the other Polish .Jews spoke to; nationalist tolerance, in Hebrew. And
Czecho-Slovakian Jews, represented by Deputy I'rilutzki made a speech in
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Deputy Nurock. In addition, Dr. Yiddish.
Metzkin, head of the Committee of
On the whole, one can say that this
Delegations was present.
was the first friendly gathering, since
The first day's sessions, held in deep the war, of hitherto belligerent peo-
privacy, were devoted to debating the ples, without state interests or ques- ocuooti00
wording of the resolutions. It was tions of prestige being involved. And
apparent that the White Russians and that is a great deal.
the Ukrainians (from Poland) would
Next year the conference proposes
withdraw, since their aims were irre- to put on its agenda the question of
dentist and looked toward a separa- the Ileinuttlosen. Eventually it will
tion of the Ukrainians from the Po- doubtless try to create means for
lish rule. (In considering the possi- spreading propaganda in favor • f the
bilities of peace in Europe, it may be general idea of minority rights ,u1-
well to remember that the Russian (oral autonomy, and inviolability of
and Ukrainian population of Poland nationalist identity.
—numbering nearly a third of th9
population of that swollen land—
cherish notions of independence.) The
These 613 precepts of the Mosaic
withdrawal of the Ukrainians, fol- code, though they doubtless embrace
lowed by that of the White Russians
some survivals of primitive taboos
and the Lithuanians (all of Poland)
enabled the conference to emphasize and totems, are in the main only an
both in its privafe and public sessions, attempt at a practical idealism, a
that the minorities which composed it sanctified sociology, an order in hu-
were loyal to their several states and
man affairs. —Israel Zangwill.
I l only sought the right to mainain their
cultural identities.
The next two days were devoted to
passing the resolutions. And then an
executive committee, composed of one
member from each national group,
was appointed (on which Metzkin rep-
resents the Jewish group) with the
task of preparing fur a congress next

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tance.
The fact that it was held enabled
representatives from nationalities
which as minorities in their mother-
lands cordially hate each other to min-
gle together freely and friendly. The
Poles and Germans, for example. At
the opening of the conference, a strain
and starchiness were evident between
the representatives of the Polish mi-
nority in Germany and the German ,
minority in Poland. This was empha-

sired by the suspicion—unimportant .
even if true—that German influence'
Was behind the conference. But in the I I
end, it was Count Sierakowsky of the
Polish groun in Germany who offered
bouquets of compliments and friend.
ship to the callers of the conference,
on the ground that it had proved I, ll
'excellent backyard (or burying hatch.
els. Similarly it was representati ,
of the Jewish. Polish and German II,
I norities of Lithuania who paid a vi-.t
!in common to the Secretariat of tl,..
to tle.
!League of Nations, in reference lie
I Lithuanian question recently f,.
too,
tin it
good,
, the League. It WAS
up the confidence of the groups, in
themselves and in their cause. It Ws,
something for a Laussitz-er Wend to
shared by'
' know that his problem WAS
an Italian Sloven.; it was groat for a
German in Poland who had been suf-
minority for seven years
fering as a
, to know that a people exists who has
minority
for 2.000 years.
SUtTeTed as
I It was tonic for every group to real-
ize that it could sink or shelter its pri-
vale grievances in general laudable
Principles of humanity, in something I
an the prin-
that sounds an. heartening
Rights of Man or the
ciples of the
Liberty of Conscience. It rained them
from being political malcontents to the
plane of human benefactors.
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The attitude of the conference
revealed more in the speeches than the

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