After today the “Emes,” the organ of the Moscow Jewish Communists, will no longer appear as an official organ of the Communist party but “as an organ of the National Minorities Council of the Central Executive Committee.” This change, which converts the “Emes,” hitherto official Communist paper, into an official government organ, is due to the liquidation of the Yevsektzia.
The conversion will undoubtedly have a tremendous effect on the entire policy of the “Emes,” because as a government organ it will have to be more careful about its published material than when it represented the Communist party. The actual difference will be the same as between the aggressive “Pravda” and the comparatively reserved “Isvestzia.”
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