Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Soviet Communist Party, who is touring Britain with Nikolai Bulganin, the USSR Premier, last night refused to discuss reports of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. He termed them “nonsense.”
The question was raised by Hugh Gaitskell, chairman of the British Labor Party, at a dinner given the two Soviet leaders by the Labor Party, who asked for easing of anti-Semitism in the Soviet bloc states. Mr. Khrushchev’s reply was termed “uncompromising and offensive.” Mr. Gaitskell’s question was prompted by a request from the Jewish Labor Committee in the United States that he query the Soviet leaders about the position of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
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