British Sovietologist Urges Full but Authentic Publicity on Plight of Russian Jews

It is the duty of the Jewish people to give as much publicity as possible to the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, a noted British Sovietologist said today. But the information released must be authentic and factual, he said. Prof. Leonard Shapiro of the London School of Economics, here to lecture at Tel Aviv University, told an audience that while the Soviet Government disregarded public opinion on major issues like the invasion of Czechoslovakia, in which it considered major Soviet interests to be involved, the Russians did not seek to be labelled as anti-Semites or to be exposed in a bad light on matters of secondary importance to them like Jewish education and the practice of the Jewish religion.