The chairmen of all six non-Communist parties in the Netherlands Parliament yesterday issued a joint statement denouncing the “anti-Semitism at present raging in the Communist-controlled countries.” The parties represented hold 92 percent of the seats in Parliament.
The occasion for the statement was the celebration today of the anniversary of the 1941 general strike in Amsterdam in protest against Nazi mass arrests of Netherlands Jews. The Communist Party of Holland has always taken credit for organizing the strike, but the joint statement yesterday disputed that right and added that as long as the Dutch Communists do not protest the “persecution of both Christians and Jews in Eastern Europe” they betray the 1941 strikers.
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