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WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A those who violate Pennsylvania's
new agreement, applying spe- laws through discriminatory
fifically to Pennsylvania but ex- practices against "individual or
their share for the war effort tending the principle to all groups by reason of their race,
A more important factor, pro h- states, was entered by the Fed- religious creed, ancestry, age or
ably, was officially - sponsore d eral Housing here, barring all national origin."
anti-Semitism. Aleksndr Scherba FHA business with any firm or
"The objective," said Hardy,
kov came into a propagand a individual that violates a state's "will be accomplished by re-
u
section one day, exclaiming, 'Yo law against racial or religious fusing to do business with
are supposed to be writing o f discrimination.
those found to have violated the
The agreement with Pennsyl- state law." He declared that he
Russian patriotism here, bu t
most of the workers are Jews! vania, according to FHA Corn- hoped similar agreements will
Not long afterward, official bu t missioner Neal J. Hardy, pro- be worked out with other states.
secret quotas prescribed the num _ vides that the Federal agency
bers of Jews who might work in will refuse to do business with
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propaganda offices; gradually
these were extended to most
other aspects of Soviet life. This
story cannot be fully substanti-
ated; but there is other informa-
tion to support the allegation
that secret quotas were estab-
lished during the war."
Here it is evident again, as
has been indicated on many
other occasions, that the Russian
anti-Semites, like anti-Semites
everywhere, aim to accuse Jews
of being both disloyal and specu-
lative.

Accumulating evidence con -iparently ceased to deal with agri-
tinues to point to the gravity o f !culture . . . He surrendered the
the position of the Jews in Sovie t I chairmanship of the Party Con-
Russia. New data pointing to th e ' trol Commission to Ezhof. Quite
tragedy of Russian Jewry is of - possibly Kaganovich was affect-
fered in The Politics of Totali - :ed by the underground current
tarianism--the Communist Part yr! of anti-Semitism which accom-
of the Soviet Union from 193 4 panied the Great Purge. In con-
to the Present, by Dr. John A . trast to 1934, the organizational
Armstrong, currently professo r measures passed by the 18th Con-
of political science and execu -1gress seemed to have been de-
tive secretary in charge of th e ! signed not only without Lazar
Russian Area Studies program •Kaganovich's participation, but
at the University of Wisconsin . in sharp departure from his
His book has been published by earlier concepts."
Random House.
Soon, "all political organiza-
Going back to the early mani _ tions—Polish, Zionist and Jew-
festations of prejudice, dating ish Socialist (Bund), as well as
back to August of 1936, when !those of the majority nationality
Zinoniev, Kamenev and 14 others in each area—were completely
were placed on trial, Prof. Arm suppressed, and many of the
leaders arrested."
strong states:
*
"Eleven of the defendants
Prof.
Armstrong
shows that
were Jews. In view of the con-
siderable proportion of Jews - Soviet Jews were in an espe-
among the Communist leaders, cially dangerous position during
this circumstance could not a t the war, for they were singled
the time be taken as a clear out for extermination by the
Nazi invaders. The Soviet author-
Dr. Armstrong additionally
indication of anti-Semitism, but
ities did little to save the Jew- points to the spreading USSR
later developments seem to indi
cate that Stalin began then to ' ish population by timely evacua- anti-Semitism by stating:
tion. This was no doubt partly
- It is significant that the anti-
identify his enemies with Jews
due to the fact that the most Semitic action was linked to
in general. All the more gro -
concentrated Jewish settlements the rising emphasis on Russian
tesque was the charge that these
Jews were linked to the Nazi lay in Belorussia ant: the 'Right- nationalism. Quite likely the
: Bank' Ukraine. where all evacua- :steps taken against Jews in gen-
police. and planned to betray the
tion measures broke down. Post- eral were linked to rivalries in
Soviet Union by adopting a de
featist attitude in case it became - war Soviet accounts have ex- the upper stratum of the regime,
! pressed sympathy for the plight especially Scherbakov's, and
involved in war with Germany
the Jews under German occu- probably Malenkov's and Beria's
and other Fascist powers. The of
true aim of these charges, which pation, and have indicated that antipathy toward Makhlis, the
partisan units sometimes helped most prominent Jew (other than
were based primarily on the
Jews who escaped to the forests. Kaganovich) remaining in high
testimony of hitherto obscure
Other sources, however, main- office. In the closing days of
German-Jewish Communists liv-
. than cooperation between Red the war anti-Semitism may have
ing in the USSR, was to destroy
partisans and Jewish refugees." been linked with a desire to con-
Trotsky's reputation."
, Dr. Armstrong proceeds also ciliate the Germans; G. F. Alek-
* * *
to show the following:
sandrov sharply attacked (Ilya)
Dealing further with the fan-
"Soviet propaganda. especially
tastic Stalinist charges against after 1941, failed to emphasize .Ehrenburg for his extreme anti-
. German writings. Other Jewish
Trotsky. Dr. Armstrong states: the extent of the Nazi extermina-
—Through some obscure arrange- tion drive against the Jews. Prob- writers were condemned for set-
ting Jews apart from other
ment with the Czechoslovak po- ably one reason for this ommis-
Soviet citizens as the special vic-
lice. a German refugee, Anton sion was the unwillingness of
tims of the Nazis. Hostility to-
Grylewi•z. was arrested in June the regime to risk alienating
1937; in spite of all the NKVD support by espousing an unpopu- ! ward Jews returning to their
homes in the former occupied
efforts—including 'planting' of lar cause. for the evidence is
forged documents — Grylewicz strong that popular anti-Semitism areas was widespread, and real
pogroms apparently took place
was exonerated a few months increased very rapidly in the
later. Evidently this affair was USSR during the early phase of •in the Ukraine."
under
part of a larger scheme for 'prov- the war. Some defectors attribute • j The Soviet effort, then
the direction of Beria, to form
ing' the ramifications of Trotsky- this rise to the grasping behavior
a Jewish committee to mobilize
Nazi espionage in Central Eur- of Jewish evacuees, and Jewish
support for the Allied and USSR
ope."
unwillingness to fight; the pro-
During the great purge and portion of Jews among soldiers war tasks, is described here. The
activities of Itsik Fefer and Solo-
the drummed-up charges against awarded medals indicates; how-
mon Mikhoels, as well as of
Jewish physicians, we learn that ever, that as a group they did
Henryk Ehrlich and Wiktor
ono of the accused, Dr. L. G.
Alter, who were executed in the
Levin, was asked: "Perhaps you
subsequent purge, are alluded
belonged to some national party, Hiatt Institute in Israel
tn. The fantastic charges against
Jewish. for example?", and his Prepares for Second Class
Ehrlich and Alter were that they
answer was: "Not to any party, of U.S. College Students
WALTHAM. Mass.—A groj were Nazi spies, but the real
only to the physicians' party."
reason, Armstrong points out,
Yet, the defendants "confessed" of college students will embark
to crimes they did not commit: in June on an unusual, adven- was their strong influence in the
that's how Russian purges ended, ture in international education. labor movement and "had they
and most of those purged were Their destination: Brandeis survived they might have been
University's Jacob Hiatt Insti- serious obstacles to Communist
Jews or other non-Russians."
domination in Poland."
The "considerable proportion tute in Israel.
*
Now in its second year, the
of Jews among the Communist
The anti-British USSR attitude,
leaders." during the early years Institute will soon select 25
of the USSR, vanished, and Dr. students from present second- the early support of Palestine's
Armstrong explains the position semester sophomores in the Partition at the UN and the
of the only remaining Soviet r.ation's colleges and universi- subsequent anti-Zionist position
Jewish leader under Stalin, LaZar ties for its six-month program. taken as part of the Communist
The deadline for applications policies, as well as the USSR
Kaganovich. as follows:
aims to control the Middle East
'-"The only Jew remaining in , is March 26.
Accepted students can look for oil monopolies. are retold
the Politburo in 1939 no longer
forward
to
living
together
in
here. Also accounted for is the
seemed the commanding figure
he had been in 1934. Kagano- a Jerusalem pension as a part "Great Purge" of 1952, the doc-
of
the
Israeli
society,
learning
tors' trial, the Rudolf Slansky
vich's position is somewhat puz-
the Hebrew language and in- case in Czechoslovakia, and the
zling. As Deputy Chairman of
vestigating Israel's history, dy- numerous other anti-Zionist and
the Council of Commissars he namics, problems and potential.
anti-Semitic acts are gone into
had very considerably increased
in detail, providing a grim pic-
his role in economic direction; Phi Beta Kappa Chapter
ture of USSR attitudes toward
he controlled both heavy indus- Installed at Brandeis
Jews and Judaism.
try and rail transportation. But
Brandeis University joined
Anti-Semitic articles in the
he no longer exercised a major the ranks of 170 of the nation's
influence on party organizational liberal arts colleges and uni- Russian press also are reviewed
matters. He had gradually relin- versities with chapters of Phi to show how the anti - Jewish
quished control over the Moscow Beta Kappa, national liberal propaganda was being pursued.
The institution of quotas on Jews
Party organization, and had ap- arts honor society.
In an historic, 183-year-old in the professions, in the schools,
ceremony, Edward Court Kirk- in the armed forces, also shows
IF YOU TURN THE
land, professor emeritus of his- how anti-Semitism increased by
tory at Bowdoin College and a leaps and bounds in Communist
senator of the United Chapters Russia. The evidence as offered
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
of Phi Beta Kappa, installed the in Armstrong's "The Politics of
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charter to Dr. Robert
B. published against the USSR in
Evans, chapter spokesman and the last three decades, but even
assistant professor of English adds to the mass of indictments
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Armstrong's Politics of Totalitarianism'
Accuses Soviet Russia of Anti-Semitism

