A petition bearing 3,600 signatures of Dutch college professors and students, requesting “more humane” treatment for Russian Jewry, was offered here today to M. Toegarinov, Soviet Minister to The Netherlands. The envoy refused to accept the petition, telling a delegation that offered it to him that “there is no problem at all of Russian Jews.”
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