Jewish Leaders Confer with British Officials on Fate of Jews in Russia

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has conferred with Britain’s Ambassador to Moscow and with top officials at the Foreign Office over the position of Jews in the Soviet Union, Barnett Janner, Board president, reported today.

Noting that the Board kept the situation of Russian Jewry in mind at all times, Mr. Janner expressed concern over Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s recent statements about Jews which, Mr. Janner said, “clearly indicates that Khrushchev has no understanding of the aspirations of Jews everywhere, including the Jews of Russia, and he has fallen a victim to certain anti-Jewish cliches which in the past had been applied by anti-Semites, namely that Jews were incapable of working collectively in a community”