Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, did not attempt any direct intervention in his inquiry to the Soviet government concerning the fate of the Minsk rabbis arrested on a charge of counter-revolutionary activity, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned tonight.
No direct communication from Senator Borah was received by the Soviet’s foreign office nor did the Soviet’s information that eleven of the fourteen who had been arrested were released, come directly to Senator Borah. Senator Borah’s inquiry was directed to M. Skirvsky, director of the Soviet Bureau of Information in Washington, who forwarded it to Moscow. Similarly Moscow’s reply from Maxim Litvinoff, acting-commissar of foreign affairs, was sent to M. Skirvsky who then communicated the information to Senator Borah.
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