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Somehow or other, Pnompenh hasn’t fallen. Would you have believed it? Prompt Senate action surely is called for.

Is it true that Communists aren’t concerned about the plight of Jews? Of course not. Communists aren’t much concerned about Jews in the Soviet Union, but they care about Jews in the rest of the world, especially Chile. On September 29 the Daily World had this headline: “Fears stirred for the fate of Jews in Chile,” followed by this coolly analytical first line: “Will the Jewish community in Chile be tortured and destroyed by the Chilean fascist junta even as were the German Jews when Hitler came to power?”

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Somehow or other, Pnompenh hasn’t fallen. Would you have believed it? Prompt Senate action surely is called for.

Is it true that Communists aren’t concerned about the plight of Jews? Of course not. Communists aren’t much concerned about Jews in the Soviet Union, but they care about Jews in the rest of the world, especially Chile. On September 29 the Daily World had this headline: “Fears stirred for the fate of Jews in Chile,” followed by this coolly analytical first line: “Will the Jewish community in Chile be tortured and destroyed by the Chilean fascist junta even as were the German Jews when Hitler came to power?”