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Last night. Joseph Barr, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, asked President Eisenhower for an appointment to discuss the “injection of anti-Semitism” into the case. He was granted an appointment for Tuesday morning. In asking for the appointment, Mr. Barr told the President that it seemed to him that Mr. Smith has “personally endorsed anti-Semitism as a basis for characterizing Ladejinsky as a security risk.”

A. J. C. ASKS BENSON TO DISAVOW ANTI-SEMITIC LETTER

Another Jewish community leader, Irving M. Engel, president of the American Jewish Committee, has called for urgent action in the Ladejinsky case. In a letter to Secretary Benson, Mr. Engel “deplored” Mr. Smith’s release of the Vitt letter as “a regrettable and harmful incident.” Mr. Engel urged Benson to make a “prompt and public disavowal of the use of this communication.”

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ANTI-SEMITIC LETTER CALLED “CLASSIC” BY BENSON AIDE

“Regrettably. . . all through the last 55 years or so there was a sprinkling of Russian revolutionaries of various persuasions coming into the U. S. A. for asylum. . . Equally regrettable was the fact that a goodly share of these revolutionaries were found among the Russian Jews. . . Russian Jews who came here running from the Tsarist regime may have had reason to be revolutionaries, with Jewish persecutions then going on in Russia.

“However, Jews who turned into Peds or fellow-travelers after 1919 were the worst kind of traitors, not only to their new mother country, the U. S. A., but to their own people, because Stalin’s persecution of Jews in Russia really was a persecution, which the previous Imperial Government never matched even to a small extent. The Rosenbergs, the atom spies, are a good example. . . Mr. L. may be innocent 100 percent but facts from his past speak against him. Thus, for the sake of Uncle Sam, he must go.”

Mr. Ladejinsky referred to the Vitt letter as the type of “vicious, anti-Semitic, Fascist brand of writing usually associated with crackpots.” Mr. Smith denied he had called the Vitt letter a “classic” defense of the Agriculture, Department’s position, but said he mad it public to show the views of one man who had experience with Amtorg. Vitt had himself worked for Amtorg and had written that “from my own experience with Amtorg their interpreters were among their key people; the reliability from the Soviet side had to be 100 percent,” Mr. Vitt asserted he was “not a Jew baiter” and said “some of my best friends are among Jews.”