Soviet Anti-semitism Denounced by Various Delegates at U. N.

The American and Israeli indictments against Soviet anti-Semitism here touched off this weekend a parade of condemnations of the Soviet Union and of the Ukrainian SSR for their anti-Semitism.

Professor Petr E. Nedbailo, the Ukrainian representative in the United Nations Human Rights Commission, conceded openly that the anti-Jewish pamphlet entitled “Judaism Without Embellishment”–which Michael S. Comay, Israeli permanent representative to the UN, had identified as having been issued by an Academy of Science of “a certain state”–had been published by the Ukrainian Academy of Science.

Professor Nedbailo denied that the caricatures in the pamphlet, which Mr. Comay had circulated to all members of the commission, were anti-Semitic. Referring to one of the caricatures, which shows a hook-nosed Jew licking a swastika-decorated boot, he said that this picture “refers to Dr. Kastner, who was a Quisling.” He also asserted that “we all had our Quislings; there were Ukrainian Quislings and Jewish Quislings. This shows a Jewish Quisling.” He ignored the other anti-Semitic caricatures and also did not comment on the fact that Dr. Kastner is nowhere mentioned in the pamphlet.

Felix Ermacora of Austria then denounced the pamhlet as something which he said reminded him “of the Nazi occupation of Austria.” Louis Ignacio-Pinto of Dahomey who, as rapporteur, is one of the commission’s principal officers, denounced the pamphlet and all Soviet anti-Semitism as “inadmissible.”

Fernando Volio Jiminez of Costa Rico called the commission’s attention to the fact that there were pogroms in the Ukraine prior to the Nazi era. Ambassador Leopoldo Benitez of Ecuador condemned anti-Semitism and “all cultural aggression.” On behalf of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has consultative status before the commission, “the practice of the encouragement of anti-Semitism by state authorities” was denounced roundly by Pierre L. Bonuzzi.