The Jewish Labor Committee announced today that its national chairman Adolph Held, had sent an urgent cable to Huch Gaitskell, leader of the British Labor Party urging him to ascertain from visiting Soviet chiefs Nikolai A. Bulganin and Nikita S. Khrushchev the fate of some 400 Soviet-Jewish cultural leaders and the reason for the continued shutdown of Jewish newspapers, periodicals and book publishing houses in the Soviet Union.
“The visit of two Soviet chiefs of state, ” Mr. Held cabled the British Labor Party leader, “to your country offers a rare opportunity to place before them the decimation of Jewish cultural institutions and the admitted murder of Jewish writers, poets and artists in the Soviet Union. There are still some 400 prominent Jewish cultural leaders unaccounted for. Jewish newspapers, theatres and book publishing firms remain shut down under the present regime.”
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