Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was today urged to have the United States Government voice a formal protest at the United Nations against the anti-Jewish campaign in Moscow and in the Soviet satellite countries. A similar request was communicated to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
The requests were made by Senator Irving Ives of New York. He was joined in them by Rep. Jacob K. Javits. “I call upon the Government of the United States, through the medium of the United Nations, to take all possible action to bring these Soviet outrages to the bar of world public opinion to the end that they shall cease,” Sen. Ives wrote Sec. Dulles and Ambassador Lodge.
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman told representatives of the Jewish Labor Committee gathered in Washington to protest Soviet anti-Semitism that “it is no coincidence that Soviet Russia should now turn to anti-Semitism” because “it may be recalled that Adolf Hitler learned the political advantages of anti-Semitism directly from the annals of the Russian history.” He said that “anti-Semitism in its modern form is Russian in origin. In Russia its practice was called the pogrom.”
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