British Officers Protest Call-up of Jewish Activists by Red Army

Two British Army officers who fought in World War II, have protested sharply against the call-up of Soviet Jewish activists into the Red Army. Brig. Gen, H.L. Glyn Hughes, former Chief Medical Officer of the British Army on the Rhine and Maj. William Maxwell, expressed their protest in a letter to the Soviet Military attache here. “Like many other friends of the Soviet Union who served in the Second World War alongside the Red Army in the battle against Nazism, we have been appalled to learn that your Army Is being used against the Jewish people,” they wrote. “A considerable number of young Jewish scientists, who had applied for exit visas to go to Israel, have now been called up In some cases the man concerned had been previously declared medically unfit, We have always felt that It was Inconceivable that the Red Army would allow itself to be used for such purposes. We write to you as non-Jewish officers who have always had friendship and respect for the Red Army,” the letter said.