Exiled leaders of the democratic movements in many of the countries of occupied Europe gathered here last night to pay tribute to the late Dr. Victor Basch, who was reported to have been murdered under mysterious circumstances near Lyon, France in January.
Among the speakers were Hubert Ripkn, Assistant Foreign Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile; Count Michael Karoly, Hungarian democratic leader; Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Loyalist Government and Harold Laski, British Labor Party leader. Prof. Laski described Basch, who had been active in liberal movements all his life, as “one of those who were ready to fight for freedom wherever it was threatened anywhere on the globe. Dr. Basch was one of the defenders of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus.
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