Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, expressed the hope today that Soviet authorities would make “all-out” efforts to clear the “poisoned atmosphere” created by a blood libel story in a Soviet newspaper and punish those responsible as they had reportedly promised. The story appeared in the Daghestan “Kommunist” on August 9.
Mrs. Meir made the statement in reply to questions in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, concerning a photostat of the article which was printed in the New York Herald Tribune and concerning a report of the promise made by Soviet authorities to And re Blumel, a French Jewish leader, that the writer of the article would be penalized.
Mrs. Meir said that the article contained a statement that Jews use Moslems blood for ritual purposes and that the newspaper subsequently printed an apology. There is a large Moslem population in the area.
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