Former French Premier and Socialist leader Guy Mollet will raise the question of the treatment of Soviet Jews with Soviet Premier Khrushchev whom he is scheduled to meet in Moscow at the end of this month, it was disclosed here today.
M. Mollet is leaving for Moscow as the head of a French Socialist delegation on October 27. He will confer with the Soviet Premier and other leading Soviet officials in Moscow. Because the French Communist party and the Soviet Union are interested in seeking an agreement with the French Socialists to form a united leftwing opposition to President de Gaulle, the former French Premier was expected to be in a position of strength for his talks with the Soviet officials.
It was understood that the former French Premier has long been aware of the plight of Soviet Jewry and has decided to raise the issue with Premier Khrushchev, just as it was raised at the Socialist International meeting in Amsterdam last month.
The French leader and his delegation will have complete documentation on the question and are expected to press their Soviet counterparts for concrete moves to ease the plight of Soviet Jewry.
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