Indications that mass arrests of Jews are now taking place in the province of Carpatho-Russia, which was taken from Czechoslovakia and which was made an integral part of the USSR, were given today in broadcasts from Moscow which also reported a drive against Jewish doctors in the Ukraine.
The Moscow broadcast claimed that Jews in Carpatho Russia worked for the American Intelligence Service and that Zionist organizations there were set up “as a blind for the designs (of American imperialists” about 30 years ago, when the territory was still a part of Czechoslovakia. They were established as “outposts against the Soviet Union,” the broadcast asserted, adding that the American espionage activities were directed from the city of Uzhgorod by Benjamin Parker.
The Moscow radio also reported from Kiev that a number of Jewish doctors in Nikolaev, in the Ukraine, are being charged with defrauding the state of more than 600,000 rubles. The names of the doctors are given as Cohen, Rapport, Zaslavsky, Roitelman, Gendelman, Levin, Sheftel, Olshanetsky, Erlichman, Yasny, Wasserman, Ravitch, Heller, and Sheftel.
(Reports from Moscow today stated that “The Communist,” official organ of the central committee of the Communist Party, came out with a severe attack against V.S. Grossman, noted Soviet writer, for his new novel on Stalingrad, which has been praised earlier in the Soviet press as a literary masterpiece equalling Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”)
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