The International P.E.N. Congress of poets, essayists and novelists, which opens in London on July 8, was asked today by the Yiddish P.E.N. Club of America to adopt a resolution calling upon writers throughout the world to protest the liquidation of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and to demand free development of Jewish cultural life there.
In a memorandum addressed to the London congress, the Yiddish P.E.N. Club pointed out that all attempts to inquire as to the fate of “disappeared” Jewish writers had been turned aside by the Soviet Embassy in Washington and Soviet diplomats at the United Nations since the first news of their arrest reached here in 1948. Official reports which became public in April of this year had confirmed the worst fears regarding the writers, the memorandum stated.
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