The report that Czechoslovak Communist police have arrested 23 Jews in Pilsen for “forbidden contact with Jewish organizations in the West” will be viewed by Jews throughout the world with the gravest apprehension Shad Polier, chairman of the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress, said in a statement issued here today.
Mr. Polier added that this campaign of slander and incitement on the part of the Czech authorities against Jews, which had abated for a time, “appears to have been resumed with the usual apparatus of baseless accusations and caked lies. The latest use of anti-Semitism as an instrument of state policy, he said, is a revolting spectacle from which all decent men must recoil with horror.
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