NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jewish
Communists in the United States
voiced a protest against the anti-
Jewish views expressed by So-
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
in his interview in the French
newspaper Le Figaro.
The Soviet Premier came
out with a severe attack on Is-
rael and on the "Jewish distaste
for collective life." He charged
that Jews are "born individual-
ists" and scored Soviet Jewry
for failing to settle in Birobid-
jan which was proclaimed a
Jewish autonomous region in
the pre-war years, but is now
no longer officially considered
as such.
The anti-Jewish views were
expressed by the Soviet dictator
in an exclusive interview with
Figaro, a leading French daily
newspaper which is publishing
a series of statements by leading
world political figures.
"Israel," Khrushchev declared,
has not adopted a position fa-
vorable to the Jewish people at
large. The Soviet Union had
voted in the United Nations for
the creation of Israel and sup-
ported the state from birth. But
Israel has shown itself ungrate-
ful and has made a mistaken
choice. Israel plays the game of
the imperialists and enemies of
the Socialist countries," he con-
tinued. "We buy from Israel

only a few oranges and can do tion." It stresses that "the in-
without them," he boasted.
justices committed against the
The Soviet Premier was even Jewish people during the last
harsher in his judgment of the years of the Stalin regime have
experience of the Jews in Biro- been only partly corrected," and
bidjan. After praising the choice that the liquidated Jewish cul-
of an area assigned the Jews— tural institutions have still not
"rich, fertile and with a tem- • been reopened by the Soviet
perate climate"—he said: "From authorities.
all over Russia the Jews came
to settle there. They arrived Refute Khrushchev's
inflamed with enthusiasm, but Allegations; Charge Moscow
with Persecuting Jews
most of them left."
Refuting Khrushchev's charges
Commenting on the Jewish
"distaste" for collective work that the Jews in the Soviet
and group discipline, Khrush- Union did not develop Birobid-
chev said: "For ages Jews jan because they are "essenti-
worked as artisans; they don't ally intellectuals" and are op-
like collective work like indus- posed to group discipline, the
try, or construction or group Morning Freiheit cites the fact
work. They're born individual- that Jews developed large Jew-
ists. Aside from the new State ish agricultural regions in the
of Israel, Jews never could re- Ukraine and in the Crimea un-
solve to live among themselves der the Soviet regime and had
participated as workers in So-
and on their own resources."
The Soviet Premier and Com- viet heavy industry. They were
munist chief also stressed what also the pioneers in Birobidjan
he called the intellectual in- until the time when Soviet au-
clination of the Jewish masses thorities started "to persecute
which, he said, "tears them their leaders and builders there"
away from other occupations." and liquidated the region's Jew-
Other nationalities in the USSR ish cultural life.
To further refute Mr. Khrush-
have made a success of their
chev's
anti-Jewish allegations,
communal national life, he
added, while the Jews have the pro-Soviet Jewish organ
failed. "This is the reason I am cites the fact that Jews are now
skeptical about the future of proving their "collectivity" by
building Israel, and that they
Jewish collectivity."
A lengthy editorial in the have proven it by building up
Morning Freiheit, the pro-Mos- the labor unions in the United
cow Jewish organ, takes issue States and in the heroic upris-
with Khrushchev's views and ings against the Nazi armies in
terms them "mistaken and the Warsaw ghetto and in other
harmful."
The editorial stresses ghettos, not to speak of the her-
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"It is clear," the editorial
not and must
says, "that the Khrushchev state-
not be passed
ment places before Soviet lead-
unchallenged."
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It declared
question in the USSR even more
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Jewish Communists in
France Split on Study of
Position of Soviet Jewry
PARIS, (JTA) — A severe
crisis has broken out among
Jews in the French Communist
Party and in Communist - led
organizations following the re-
turn to this country of a dele-
gation of three prominent Jew-
ish Communists to the Soviet
Union where they studied the
position _ofJews. The three were
1VI. Wilner, editor of the Jewish
Communist newspaper her e
`Neue Presse,' Dr. J. Slages and
A. Youdinn.
The present crisis has its roots
in a report received here five
months ago of anti-Semitic prac-
tices in the USSR, which re-
sulted in a change in the edi-
torial board of Neue Presse.
Late last year, apparently at the
insistence of French Commu-
nist leader Jacques Duclos, the
three Jewish Communists were
invited to Moscow to see for
themselves the situation and
thereby, it was hoped, quiet the
uneasy Jews in the French
Communist Party.
During their Moscow visit, the
three met with Shmuel Halkin

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Khrushchev's Anti-Jewish
Interview to Russia
NEW' YORK, (JTA) — The
anti-Jewish interview given by
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-
chev to the Paris newspaper Le
Figaro was broadcast by Radio
Moscow on its domestic service,
but without his remarks on the
Soviet Jews having failed . to
make a success of Birobidjan
because of their "distaste" for
collectivism, it was reported by
the American Committee for
Liberation.
The committee, which main-
tains an anti-Communist radio
station in Munich, has broad-
cast the full text of Khrush-
chev's disparaging r cm a r k s
about Jews in Russian and other
Soviet languages. This, the corn-•
mittee announced, was done "to
make up • for Moscow Radio's
dereliction."
The committee also said that
Frol Kozlov, who was recently
named First Deputy Premier of
the Soviet Union, is a "pro-
nounced anti-Semite" and played
a major role in the so-called
doctor's plot when a group of
Soviet physicians, mainly Jews,
were falsely accused of having
plotted against the lives of Sta-
lin and other Soviet rulers. "At
the time, Kozlov denounced the
Jewish doctors as spies and
traitors, part and parcel of the
Zionist war-mongering machine,"
the committee reported.

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