ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA
Sir,-Your correspondent "Ex-Popular Frontist," in criticising Mr, Edwards, does not brihg forward one fatt to show that anti-Semitism is tolerated in either Crechoslovakia or the , Soviet Union, where it is a serious crime. He would, of course, find it difficult to explain why, in. October, three Jews — Kaganovich, Mekhlis and Rayzer-were elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Attention might be more profitably directed to the States where, in spite of the fact that it contains the largest Jewish community in the world, there has been since the Civil War only one Jew in the Senate. Eisenhower’s cabinet contains none. One might also be concerned with the fact that in New Zealand the beastly "Protocols. of the Elders of Zion" circulate freely without any action being taken against publisher or distributor. It is even in the public libraries, There is no anti-Semitism in the viet Union because in a society where man is no longer: wolf to the man the economic basis for racism of any kind. has disappeared. But our so-called "free world" needs a scapegoat and the whipPing up of hatred and contempt for those of different nations, colours and beliefs is part of its very being. Surely the Jewish people have suffered enough. I cannot imagine a worse crime than that of torturing their minds by false allegations of persecutions against their co-religionists, The bitter irony of it all is that the charges of anti-Semitism in Russia are made precisely by those who, in Germany, have been busily freeing and elevating to high office the perpetrators of the greatest mass-extermination of Tews in historv.
JAS. W.
WINCHESTER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 5
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