Several thousand Frenchmen, Jews and non-Jews, marched through the streets of Paris last night in a protest demonstration against the Leningrad trial and the repression of Soviet Jewry. Police were out in force but no incidents occurred. The demonstrators assembled at Paris’ main synagogue on the Rue de La Victoire, where France’s Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan and the Chief Rabbi of Paris offered prayers for the Leningrad defendants. Baron Alain de Rothschild, president of the Jewish Consistory, led the marchers to the Square de La Trinite where they dispersed peacefully after calling on the Soviet government to end the trials of Jews and permit free emigration. In Marseilles and Lyon about 2000 demonstrators each marched through the center of town to protest the Leningrad trial. Smaller demonstrations were reported in Nice and Bordeaux.
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