Leading Brazilian newspapers today called on the free world to protest the arrest and imprisonment of leaders of the Leningrad and Moscow Jewish communities.
Diario Carioca, one of the most influential newspapers in this country, condemned the anti-Jewish manifestations by Soviet authorities in an editorial entitled: “Imitating Hitler and Stalin.” The editorial called upon the peoples of the world to protest the anti-Jewish persecutions in the Soviet Union “just as the world has reacted against the Kremlin’s resumption of nuclear tests,”
O Globo, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Brazil, also denounced the anti-Semitic acts in the Soviet Union. An editorial in O Globo concluded: “The persecutors of Jews have, historically, disappeared while the Jewish people live on, united by blood and tradition.”
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