Radio Free Europe experts on Czechoslovak affairs were reported today as stating that Jews and “bourgeois objectivists” will soon be purged in Communist Czechoslovakia from scientific and cultural fields.
The report, which was cabled from Munich to the New York Times, said that the impending purge was disclosed by the Prague radio, which announced that “a congress against cosmopolitanism and bourgeois objectivism in science” was to be held in Bruenn from February 27 to March 1. The word “cosmopolite” is accepted generally as a Communist euphemism for Jews. It was initiated in articles and broadcasts in the Soviet Union, and has been adopted by the satellite countries. “Bourgois objectivists” are those who do not pattern scientific conclusions to the Communist party theoretical line, the report explained.
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