S.O. Davies, a Labor member of the British Parliament of the Bevan wing, today presented an amendment designed to offset the effect of a Labor resolution, backed by more than 60 deputies, which deplored the “anti-Semitic nature of recent actions and pronouncements in a number of Communist countries” and asked the British Government to take measures to combat the “terrible revival of race discrimination.”
Mr. Davies’ amendment would have Parliament deplore the “unfounded charges of anti-Semitism made against the USSR and the peoples democracies in Eastern Europe.” It cites the fact that the Soviet constitution guarantees equality of rights of citizens regardless of nationality or race, and that “it is known that such charges of anti-Semitism are emphatically repudiated by representative. Jews in the USSR, including the Chief Rabbi of Moscow.”
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