(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant, in a press interview, categorically contradicted the reports in American newspapers that his recent visit to Soviet Russia was of an official nature. He went there he said, in a purely private capacity, and not as an official representative of the International Chamber of Commerce, the convention of which he attended at Stockholm, nor as the representative of any American chamber of commerce.
The statement also that Mr. Filene went to Russia because he was “interested in Bolshevist theories of promoting world peace,” were equally unfounded. He wished it to be put on record that no man is more against Bolshevism than he, and his way to world peace is, of course, through better capitalism and mass production.
On his Russian trip Mr. Filene was accompanied by Prof. Jerome Davis of Yale, and during his whole stay he granted no press interviews and refused all invitations to public affairs.
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