New York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia. The voice was the voice of California chambers of commerce, but the hands were the hands of Russia.
U.S. bigwigs (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Senator Alben Barkley, Mayor O'Dwyer), innocently anxious to sponsor any benevolent-sounding cause, and ignoring the timing of the new campaign, endorsed Birobidjan.
Birobidjan was the latest move in Russia's drive for influence among the Arabs of the Middle east. In UNO Russia had stood behind Arab Syria...
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