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Malenkov May Follow Stalin’s Anti-jewish Policy, Say

September 23, 1953
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The “probability” that the Male in the Soviet Union will carry on the anti-Setuitic program of the l### Stalin regime was predicted here tonight by Jacob Blaustein, presi### can Jewish Committee, addressing a dinner of Jewish leaders at t### Hotel at which the Joint Defense Appeal inaugurated the Fall phase ### for $5,000,000 for maintaining the activities of the AJC and the B’r### Defamation League.

Citing the appointment of Nikita Khrushchev to the post of secr### munist Party as evidence of Moscow’s anti-Jewish attitude, Mr. B### “Under Krushchev’s governorship of the Ukraine, just after the wa### only openly insulted and discriminated against, they were physicall### will have to go back to the days of the Czar to match these occurre###

Mr. Blaustein attacked the McCarran immigration Act as “the ### racialism written into our country’s basic laws.” He also pointed ### gency law permitting the entry of 214,000 people over a period of a### half years embodies provisions “so comprehensive and at the same ### that even a dog might have trouble getting security clearance for a### country.” He said that “the emergency measure is going to help k### Act in force by misleading people into imagining that the bad featu### been gotten around somehow.”

Philip Klutznick, president of B’nai B’rith, echoing Mr. Blaus### against complacency in the fight against discrimination, said: “Be###tories have been achieved some people have jumped to the conclus### has been won. The result has been a certain lessening in the sens### impells our continuing efforts. This we must never forget–so lon### any one group are threatened the civil and human rights of all are ###

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