At the annual meeting of the Icor, an American organization for aiding Jewish farm settlement in Russia, on March 3rd, a resolution was adopted denying that Jews are being persecuted for their religion in Soviet Russia. The resolution appeals to the Jewish masses “not to allow themselves to be misled by the artificial hysteria which political enemies of the Soviet Union are now trying to create under the cloak of religious persecutions.”
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