Hope that the anti-Jewish campaign in the Communist countries would “slow down” was expressed by the newspaper Davar today in a comment on the new Soviet government changes following the death of Premier Stalin. The leading pro-government Israeli newspaper said that the new Soviet leaders would not want internal conflicts at this time, while at the same time they are sensitive to world public opinion on this matter.
Other newspapers commenting on the appointment of Lazar Kaganovitch, Jewish revolutionary figure and long-time intimate of Stalin, as Vice Premier, saw in the appointment an attempt to prove that the USSR was not anti-Jewish. Nevertheless, all Israel newspapers today expressed concern over the future of Russian Jewry.
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