The Hebrew labor paper “Davar” today eulogizes Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich, the two Polish-Jewish Socialist leaders who were executed in Russia. “Despite the fact that they both were bitter opponents of our Zionist aims, none of us will forget that they sacrificed their lives for the Jewish labor movement,” the paper writes. “Nobody will believe the charge that they conducted propaganda in Russia for a separate peace with Germany. It is obvious that they were innocent.”
(It was learned in New York today that the U.S. State Department had sought to intervene for the release of Alter and Ehrlich and had at one time offered to supply them with visas to this country. It was also learned that Wendell Willkie, during his visit to Moscow, made direct representations in their behalf while discussing the problem of political prisoners with Soviet Foreign Commissar V. Molotov.)
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