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Anti-soviet Paper Reports Jewish Dramatists Arrested

June 17, 1937
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Arrest in Moscow of the director of the Moscow Theatre, Arkadaieff, and of the chief of the repertory staff, Litovski, both Jews, for attempting to assist Jewish friends to flee from Russia, was reported in dispatches to the Morning Post today from Helsingfors, Finland, a center of anti-Soviet propaganda.

The Post said Akradaieff and Litovski were charged with attempting to include their friends in the cast of a company to appear at the Paris Exposition, with a View to facilitating their flight from Russia.

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