Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville told the B’nai B’rith International Council tonight that there was a “vital” connection between Soviet totalitarianism and anti-Semitism. He was addressing 150 B’nai B’rith leaders from four continents attending the two-day meeting of the Council:
Contrasting the postwar revival of the Jewish cultural community life in Western Europe with “the fact that things are different in another part of Europe separated from us by the Iron Curtain,” M. de Murville said that true liberty exists in no Communist country and the freedom of Jews in those lands was “even more limited.”
Asserting that, after the Nazi holocaust the Jewish communities of Western Europe were reconstituted, the Foreign Minister said that “their religious life and spiritual development resumed without difficulty.” France, he said, is happy “continue to do our best to encourage it.”
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