The Soviet radio and newspapers have omitted all reference to remarks by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the fact that “half the members of the presidium” of the Communist Party of the USSR have Jewish wives, it was reported by the American Committee for Liberation, which monitors Soviet radio broadcasts.
Mr. Khrushchev made his remarks extemporaneously at a Polish Legation reception where he spied the Israeli Ambassador, Joseph Avidar, The Premier said that the Dowager Queen Elizabeth of Belgium had raised the question of a special Russian attitude toward the Jews with Soviet President Klementi Vorshilov and had been told by the President that he had a Jewish wife. At this point in his tale, Mr. Khrushchev added the comment that half the members of the Communist Party presidium were married to Jews.
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