Protests against the anti-Semitic book, “Judaism Without Embellishment,” and the Soviet ban on matzoh in Russia spread today in the Belgian press and among Christian groups.
The Independent “Le Soir, ” largest-circulation evening daily in Belgium, published a severe criticism of the publication on its first page. The progressive Catholic paper, Le Cite, also protested against “these new manifestations of anti-Semitism in the USSR.”
A lead article appeared in the official daily of the Belgian Socialist party, Le Peuple, by Victor Larock, former Belgain Foreign and Education Minister and a leader of the Socialist International. He asked; “What is the meaning of this insidious anti-Semitism?”
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