A Jew arriving from Kiev today reported that the authorities there are preparing a trial for five Jews active in the struggle for aliya. They are Boris Kranski, Michael Radomyselsky, Yuri Soroka, Zinovi Melamed, Yehiel Kaglowski. The report could not be immediately confirmed by any other source. Radomyselsky was reported in yesterday’s Daily News Bulletin as the spokesman for 34 Kiev Jews who issued a Passover message which declared “We shall overcome.”
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