Chile will support Israel unconditionally at the United Nations when it raises the question of anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain, Chilean Foreign Minister Arturo Olavarria today told Israel Minister Yacov Tsur. Minister Olivarria, stressing that he was speaking in the name of Chilean President Ibanez, said the President condemned the anti-Jewish drive in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Natalia Berman, leader of the Communist Party of Chile and for many years a member of Parliament, has resigned from the Party in protest against Moscow’s anti-Jewish drive. One of the most popular leaders of organized labor in Chile, Dr. Berman said he could not remain indifferent to Moscow’s slander of the Jews and that the Communist anti-Jewish policy became clear to him during the recent Prague “purge” trial. He is president of the Jewish out-patient clinic in Santiago and chairman of a committee which is raising funds for the building of a Jewish hospital in Chile.
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