Twenty-five Years of Soviet Pogroms
DOUGLAS, PAUL H.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Of SOVIET POGROMS By Paul H. Douglas U.S. Senator from Illinois At this hour, when Soviet bombers and jet planes are within a few minutes' striking distance of Tel Aviv and...
...We know that the Stalin-Hitler Pact resulted in extermination of six million Jews in Nazi incinerators and gas chambers...
...Senator from Illinois At this hour, when Soviet bombers and jet planes are within a few minutes' striking distance of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, when inflamed bands of Arab nationalists armed with Soviet grenades and tommy-guns are raiding homes in Israel, when the world faces war in the Middle East, we learn ?small part of the story of the Soviet regime's pogrom against Jewish writers, labor leaders and artists...
...Now on April 4 a Warsaw Communist paper has admitted that these men were murdered...
...For years, nothing was known of their fate...
...The story in the New York Times of April 12 furnishes shocking proof, if proof is still needed, of the moral identity of all totalitarian regimes: The Soviet regime, as we now learn from the admissions of a Communist newspaper in Warsaw, engaged in a systematic extermination of Jewish culture and its leaders for over 25 years...
...We learn from a Communist source today that Jews were being murdered in the 1930s...
...Then they murdered these men on charges we now know were false...
...Today, the present directors of Soviet Murder, Inc., Khrushchev and Bulganin, have thrown into the Middle East the instruments of death and destruction which can easily wipe from the face of the earth those survivors of Nazi death camps and Soviet persecution who have tried to make of Israel a sanctuary and island of freedom...
...And, when the war was over, under slogans of fighting cosmopolitanism scores of other leaders of the Jewish community were murdered...
...Their names have never been published before in ?Communist newspaper...
...When the German armies were within few miles of Moscow and the Communist dictators trembled for their very lives, they cynically permitted the creation of a Jewish anti-Fascist committee headed by two leaders of the Polish labor movement, Erlich and Alter...
...A Statement to Radio Liberation...
...But Moscow is still silent...
Vol. 39 • April 1956 • No. 18
