French Premier Guy Mollet has been urged to intervene in behalf of arrested Jewish writers and cultural leaders when he visits Moscow next week, the Jewish Labor Committee disclosed today.
The message to M. Mollet, sent to him as leader of the French Socialist Party, reads as follows: “Would greatly appreciate your support in Moscow of Hugh Gaitskell’s British Labor Party intervention Jewish writers and cultural leaders and arrested Russian Socialists.” The cable was signed by Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee.
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