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A protest meeting against “the Zionists and the MacDonald government” for the “bloody suppression of the Arab uprising” was held here under the auspices of the Austrian Communist party.

Among the speakers who addressed the gathering was the former Poale Zionist, Michal Kohn, representative of the Moscow International in Palestine.

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Following the resignation from the editorial staff of the “Freiheit” of Abraham Reisin, A. Leivik, Menachem Boraisha and A. Raboy, in protest against the pro-Arab attitude taken by the Communist organ, the J. L. Peretz Writers Club held two meetings in New York last week at which the Jewish writers’ club adopted three resolutions condemning the attitude of the Yiddish Communist daily and declaring those members of the club who are still affiliated with the editorial staff of the “Freiheit” as having placed themselves “outside of the camp of Jewish public opinion and having desecrated the elementary conception of professional ethics.” The resolutions further declared that the Club considers “these persons as unworthy of remaining members of the J. L. Peretz Writers Club.”

The Club also decided to issue a memorandum expressing a sharp protest of the Jewish writers against the attitude of the “Freiheit.” Facts are to be cited in the memorandum “showing how the ‘Freiheit’ misleads and misinforms its readers concerning the truth of the great Jewish tragedy in Palestine.”

Another resolution expresses the Club’s deep sorrow and grief over the bloody pogroms on Jews in Palestine and condemns the gruesome atrocities of the Arab pogrom-makers. The Club expresses its admiration for the heroic Jewish self-defense which saved the Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Club protests against “the British administration in Palestine which has permitted the bloody events.”

The resolution excluding the “Freiheit” staff members concerns thirteen persons.