Dr. Emil Sommerstein, former Jewish member of the Polish Parliament, who is now among the Polish-Jewish refugees in Russia, has been asked by the Russian authorities to voluntarily accept Soviet citizenship, according to a reliable report reaching here from Teheran.
In suggesting to Dr. Sommerstein that he become a Russian citizen, the Soviet authorities pointed out that he was born in one of the Polish provinces which the Soviet Government now considers part of the U.S.S.R. as a result of the plebiscite conducted there in 1939. Dr. Sommerstein, the report states, is now living in the city of Sizran on the Volga, after having left a hospital near Saratov, in the Volga district, where he was treated for many weeks for a serious illness. His health at present is believed to be satisfactory, the Teheran report says.
Representatives of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran arrived in Jerusalem today to open negotiations with medical institutions and factories for the purchase of medicaments and surgical instruments for military hospitals in Russia.
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