A leader of the Swiss Parliament charged today that the bulletin published and distributed by the Soviet Embassy in Berne contained “unbridled attacks on both the United States and Israel that showed evidence of primitive anti-Semitism.” Dr. Walter Hofer, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Lower House, asked the Foreign Minister yesterday if this did not constitute a violation of Swiss neutrality and an infringement on freedom of thought. He said the Soviet Embassy bulletin contained “hints of dark conspiracies by world Jewry” and claimed that Jews were the real power in Washington.
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