The Yevsektzia, the notorious Jewish section of the Communist party which has done more to embitter the lives of Orthodox Russian Jews than any other agency in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, declared itself today to be in the position of Mark Twain, who said that the report of his death was premature.
Informed today by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of the report published in the Russian newspaper printed in Berlin, “Rul,” that the Communist Central Committee, under Stalin’s leadership, decided to do away with the Yevsektzia by dissolving it, the Yevsektzia leaders declared that the report was false. To the contrary, the Yevsektzia is now energetically preparing for its plenary meeting on May 13, when further measures to combat religion among the Jewish population will be planned.
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