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ter, son-in-law and granddaughter.
"We are very lonely and dream
of being together with my one sur-
viving relative in our ancient
homeland," Mrs. Meerovna writes.
"Neither my children nor myself
want any other homeland."
French, Italian Communists
Say Trials Might Be Cancelled;
'Leak' Seen as Significant
PARIS (JTA)—The French Com-
munist newspaper L'Humanite said
upcoming trials of Soviet Jews
might be canceled. Observers
viewed the report as a possibly
Kremlin-initiated "leak." (A simi-
lar statement appeared in the
Italian Communist paper, L'Unita.)
• A French Jewish lawyer said he
has been granted permission by
Soviet authorities to attend any
future trials in which Russian
Jews are implicated. Andre Blu-
mel made that statement upon his
return from a private visit to Mos-
cow. But Jewish circles sought to
discredit him by pointing out that
Blumel, once a Jewish and Zionist
leader, is now known for his close
connections with pro-Kremlin cir-
cles in the French Communist
Party. Blumel said the Soviet au-
thorities agreed to assign a Rus-
sian jurist to assist him at future
trials and interpret Soviet law.
Jewish circles here claimed that
the alleged invitation was a move
in the Russian propaganda cam-
paign to try to prove the "fairness
and justice" of the trials such as
the recent one in Leningrad.
A group of prominent French in-
tellectuals including Nobel Laure-
ate Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone
de Beauvoir issued a declaration
which appeals to "all progressive
forces" to rally to the aid of So-
viet Jews in their struggle for
human rights. Among the signa-
tories were the Communist poet

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Newsweek magazine's correspondent Jay Axelbank is shown here
examining damage done to his car by vandals in Moscow in their
surge for anti-American intimidations.

Vercours, and the former Czecho-
slovakia Communist Party leader,
Arthur London, who was purged
during the Slansky trials in 1952.
London is the author of "The Con-
fession," which deals with that
period and has now been made into
a motion picture.
An Italian Communist leader has
stated that he does not believe
that the problem of Soviet Jewry
is incapable of solution even though
it is complicated by the Arab-
Israel conflict.
Umberto Terracini made that
assertion in a letter last Aug.
22, to Emanuel Litvinoff, British
author and publisher who had for-
warded an appeal to help by 93
Soviet Jews to the Communist
parties in several Western coun-
tries.
Litvinoff disclosed the text of
the letter to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency. In it Terracini
observed that in other Communist
countries, permission is being
given Jews to go to Israel. Two of
the Jews who signed the appeal
were later among the 11 de-
fendants tried and sentenced to
prison terms in Leningrad last
month. Two others are among the
nine accused Jews in the second
Leningrad trial that was to have
opened last week but was post-

There was no immediate word
Wednesday from the usually reli-
able sources as to whether or not
the trial against the latest group
of nine Jews or the trials sched-
uled in Kishinev and Riga had
been postponed indefinitely or can-
celed. The commutation of the
two death sentences—and the re-
lease of Maj. Grisha Feigin from
a mental institution to which he
had been committed for return-
ing his medals for heroism in
World War II in protest against
Soviet anti-Jewish policy — gave
rise to the hope that the Soviet au-
thorities were responding to world
pressure.
The Leningrad nine are identi-
fied as: Lev Leibovich Korenblit,
48, mathematician; Solomon Dreiz-
ner, 38, engineer; Vladimir Osher-
ovich Mogilever, 30, engineer;
Mikhail Korenblit, brother of Lev
Korenblit; Viktor Shtilbans, 28,
physician; Viktor David Boguslav-
sky, 30, engineer; Grigory Ilya
Butman, 37, engineer; Lassal
Kaminsky, 40, engineer; and Yag-
man. Boguslaysky was arrested
July 12. Shtilbans and Mikhail
Korenblit were arrested Nov. 16,
and the other seven were all ar-
rested June 15. There was no word
about the fate of other Jews await-
ing trial in Riga and Kishinev.
Jewish sources identified those in
poned.
Kishinev
as: Aleksander Galperin,
That trial of nine Jews charg-
arrested July 24; Arkady Volo-
ed by Soviet authedties for 24,
shin,
Gari
and David
having known about hte alleged Rabinovich, Kirschner
all arrested Aug. 15,
hijack plot June 15 and not re- and Semeon Abramovich
Levit, ar-
porting it to Soviet officials fail-
ed to reopen this week. It was rested in November.
Meanwhile, 65 Jews in Moscow
tentatively scheduled to continue

Tuesday or Wednesday in Lenin-
grad after being recessed last
week due, according to reports,
to the illness of one of the ne-
fendants.
There'was some speculation that
the sudden recess 10 minutes after
the trial opened indicated that the
Soviet authorities had either de-
cided to cancel the trial entirely or
to conduct the trial "underground,"
that is, in even greater secrecy
than the trial last month of the
Leningrad 11.

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trial of the Leningrad nine, if held,
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Leaden Assail Bombings,
Urges Congressional Action
NEW YORK (JTA)—In the wake
of last Friday morning's bombing
of the Soviet cultural offices in
Washington, the American Jewish
Committee has called on Aresident
Nixon and Congress to "swiftly in-
troduce and approve legislation
making a federal crime of the
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