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Russian Communist Dresses Like an Arab and Speaks on Behalf of Them

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Abou Ziam, the representative of the Palestine Arab Communist Party in the Third International at Moscow, is none other than Ziame Auerbach, the Russian Communist who was sent to Palestine by the Third International for the express purpose of carrying on Communist propaganda there.

When he later returned from Palestine, he dressed like an Arab, assumed an Arab name, and acted the part of an Arab continually. As recently as March 5th, at the fifth anniversary of the Third Intenational in Moscow, he delivered a speech declaring that Communism is growing rapidly among the Palestinian Arabs, and that the Communist Party was the second in size there.

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