A severe editorial condemnation of Soviet anti-Semitism appeared last week in La Nacion, a leading Chilean Government organ. The paper traced the problem of anti-Semitism in Russia from Czarist days and found little difference In its status today under the Communist regime.
The editorial quoted anti-Semitic citations appearing in a book published in Moscow in 1966 entitled “Fundamental Questions of Scientific Atheism.” The paper gave details on the suppression of Jewish life in the Soviet Union, beginning with the closing of Jewish schools in 1952. Today, it said, the Soviet Union’s three million Jews are “pariahs” suffering from the anti-Semitism of the Soviet bureaucracy.
(In Berne, Switzerland, the press counsellor of the Soviet Embassy received a delegation of Jewish students which came to protest the treatment of the Jews in the Soviet Union and assured them that “everything is all right with the Soviet Jews.” Attempting to prove that there was no need for demonstrations and protests, he gave the students a handful of official statements on the status of the Jews in Russia. Demonstrations were also held in Geneva under the auspices of the Union of Jewish Students in Switzerland. In Geneve, as here, the demonstrations went off peacefully.)
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