The Bureau of the Socialist International completed today, after a two-day meeting in London, its organization of a group of seven Socialist leaders to form a working party for investigation of the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
At the request of Pietro Nenni, leader of the United Italian Socialist Party, his name was added to the membership of the working party. Robert Pontillo, international secretary of the French Socialist Party, was named by the Bureau as chairman of the investigatory group. The working party will hold a plenary session next month. It was instructed to have its report ready by next October, for presentation to the annual meeting of the International’s Council, to be held in Switzerland.
Dr. S. Levenberg, Labor Zionist leader here, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that the establishment of the working party to study the position of Soviet Jewry “is an unprecedented step in the history of the Socialist International, and is due to the deep Socialist interest in human rights.” He pointed out that three of the parties represented in the working group — those of Britain, Italy and France — are members of parties represented in the governments of their countries. He attached special importance to the fact that the Nenni group in Italy wanted to be associated with a study of the situation of the Jews in the USSR.
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