Jewish Sculptor Sees No Anti-semitism in Russia

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The famous Jewish sculptor, Nahum Aronson, of Paris, who is now in Moscow in connection with the presentation of his bust of Lenin to the State Museum, said that while he had heard a great deal about the growth of anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia, he had seen no evidences of it. He had been to Russian workers’ clubs accompanied by his Jewish friends, and although he was easily recognizable as a Jew, both in appearance and in name, he has everywhere been received in the most friendly manner.

There might be some anti-Semitism among the officials or the intellectuals. Mr. Aronson said, but there is no anti-Semitism among the masses of the people. There is no need to fear anti-Semitism in a country where the laws are all directed against anti-Semitism. In any attack by an anti-Semite upon a Jew, the Jew always finds two non-Jews to take his part against the anti-Semite.

A group of bankers and financial leaders of New York and Philadelphia, headed by Lewis L. Clarke, chairman of the executive committee of the American Exchange Irving Trust Company, visited the National Farm School at Doylestown, Pa., in connection with the $5,000,000 expansion campaign now in progress for the school.

On behalf of a large group of New York business men and bankers, Mr. Clarke pledged support to the movement.

Mrs. E. J. C. Nathan has been adopted prospective Liberal candidate for the London City Council in Northeast Bethnal-green, where her husband, Major H. L. Nathan, is prospective Parliamentary candidate.