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Two-day Scandinavian Conference on Jews in Russia Opens Tomorrow

April 23, 1965
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A conference of Scandinavian intellectuals on the problems of the Jews in the Soviet Union will be held here Saturday and Sunday.

The conclave is being sponsored by three Swedish leaders, Prof. T. Segerstedt, Dean of Upsala University, the Very Rev. Zedderberg, Primate of Stockholm, and Alvar Alsterdal, a Socialist leader; two Norwegian personalities, Odd Nansen, a scholar and author, and John Sanness, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Oslo; and two Danish leaders. They are Vigo Kampmann, former Prime Minister of Korway, and Prof. Mogens Pihl, the noted physicist.

The conference will hear reports by authorities and assess the situation. It is expected to issue an appeal to the Soviet Government. The sponsors stressed that the conclave was not an anti-Soviet meeting but rather a conference of humanists to discuss “an acute problem of human rights.”

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