Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Troyanovsky declared that there is no Jewish problem and that “anti-Semitism has almost completely disappeared in Soviet Russia,” in an address last night at a dinner in his honer by the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, which marked the launching of a $350,000 campaign for settling 1,000 foreign Jews in the Soviet autonomous territory in 1936.
Discussing the rise of anti-Semitism in various countries of Europe, including Russia, he praised Mussolini for not having “dishonored himself by anti-Semitic words and deeds.”
In Soviet Russia, he declared, “our young generation is completely free from any trace of the anti-Semitic spirit.”
Other speakers were Senator Elbert D. Thomas, William W. Cohen, Dr. Jacob Billikopf, James Waterman Wise, Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, Reuben Brainin and B.Z. Goldberg.
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