“Complete solidarity” with the Jews of the world and with the people of Soviet Russia was voiced here today by the noted British author, H. G. Wells, addressing a luncheon honoring, in absentia, Prof. Solomon. Mikhoels and Lieut.-Col. Itzik Feffer, the Jewish cultural delegation from Russia, who have not yet arrived in England because of transportation difficulties. The meeting was arranged by the British Pen Club. Mr. Wells emphasized that Mikhoels and Feffer represented both the Jewish people and the Russian people and said that ” in these days of the martyrdom of the Jews and the undaunted heroism of the Russians, everyone is eager to show complete solidarity with them.”
Stating that he was “ready to forget the past,” Mr. Wells added that he “could not forbear to speak of Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich,” the two Polish Jewish Socialists who were executed in Russia, whom he described as “founders of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.”
During the luncheon, tribute was paid to the late Dr. Saul Tschernichowsky, famous Hebrew poet, who died in Palestine last week. At Mr. Well’s suggestion, the Pen Club voted to send condolences to the Hebrew Pen Club in Palestine.
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