Canadian Royal Commission Criticized for Bringing Jewish Issue into Spy Activities

The statement by a Canadian Royal Commission investigating “Soviet spy activities” that “the natural reaction of persons of Jewish origin to racial discrimination was one of the factors played upon by the Communists’ recruiting agents,” is attacked in the current issue of “The Churchman,” independent Protestant monthly.

Pointing to the fact that an investigator of the Wood-Rankin Committee here denounced all groups fighting anti-Semitism as “Communist transmission belts,” the magazine says that “we can now expect that all those who seek to prevent utilization of atomic power for destructive purposes and who hate anti-Semitism will be denounced as ‘Communist.'”