Reports from Prague today disclosed that about 30 Czechoslovak Jews, imprisoned nearly ten years ago in the aftermath of the so-called “doctors’ plot” against Soviet Premier Stalin, have been set free. Their arrests had been part of a Communist purge in Czechoslovakia which resulted in the execution of Rudolf Slansky, a Jew who had been head of the Communist Party in that country. Some of the freed men have indicated a desire to go to Israel.
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