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number of communists, and so I am not going to continue, but what I want to say is that we are believing here in this country under this impact of an accumulated number of legends and nobody dares, so far, to come out with the truth and say: that is not the truth and that is not true and this is not true. I believe that a great campaign of enlightenment must start. We must see what is happening in the Soviet Union. A man who is certainly competent to discuss this matter is Will Grant and he asked me what I think about it. So I told him he was a great humanitarian, in one generation you lose a [...] three million Jews. It is a policy aimed at cutting off of the Jews from the rest of the world, at creating a new Jewish nation, which started in 1917. Well, these are things which should somehow go out to the Jewish reader.
Mrs. Poole:Do you put into this category the activity of Russian War Relief? 9
Dr.Robinson: I certainly do. It is absolutely unjustified. During the war, all right. We had a common enemy. The infiltration of communists everywhere is something else. We cannot continue going on this way. The moment it will be realized in the world that we know what is happening, that Jewish publish public opinion is not even for it, they will come to the conclusion that the American Jews must be won over and he will start thinking in other terms than today. In this connection I would like to just throw out an idea. A year from now we are going to have a 30 th anniversary, 10 a very fitting opportunity to make a balance of our [achievements and we] should [try] and to see what we won and what we lost during these 30 years, not only in the Soviet Union but all around the world and for myself I am satisfied with the result, but it is important that [by that] time every intelligent and educated Jew should have on his desk a book telling him what has happened during these 30 years.
Now I come to a number of questions. Who shall do this job? I do not believe that it would be wise that only Zionist groups should do it. It is for American Jewry as a whole and there will be a real separation of spirits. We will see who are looking at Moscow and who are looking at New York and Jerusalem as a centre of their loyalty. There is some concerted effort which must be made on all Jewish organizations to start working on this project and I believe it is important. You cannot but be struck by the complete lack of political education when you have a Jewish newspaper in your hands. Poland with its remnant of some 80,000 Jews is still dealt with in every great detail, but the Soviet Union with 2,000,000 Jews is being ignored. Poland, which is no factor in the Palestine problem, but the Soviet Union--taboo, not a single word. That is certainly something which all Jewish organizations and, indeed, all the Jewish communities in America must start doing something about. I believe we should start with [a] number of research projects. It would be a very easy job for me to outline. It is, indeed, maybe the greatest [moment] in Jewish
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9. The Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, established during the war, collected and sent to the Soviet Union relief money, medicines and other supplies. The sum pledged for 1946 was $3,000,000
10. Of the Balfour Declaration.
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history. You cannot compare it with [the] Alexandrian 11 period or even with the period of emancipation in Western Europe. As compared with these parallel examples of Jewish realization, it stands out by the number of people [involved] and those who believe that Judaism should survive should make up their minds whether this experiment is going to be repeated and what we have to do about it. That will go on in Yufosiavia. You have 400,000 Jews in Romania you have some 650,000 behind the Iron Curtain, and this today, when we are so poor, [when] all active Judaism is 9,000,000. Now I can imagine that some souls will tell us that we cannot declare war on the USSR, that we cannot create a new enemy. We are not creating it, it is here, it is only for us to realize [that]. We are not going to declare war, nor are we going to use these sensational methods. A method of slow, systematic, but very detached dispassionate real information, real knowledge for us to disseminate, and I certainly cannot believe that the Soviet Union would be [in]different [to] public opinion. Certainly, we cannot declare war on them as we did on England, but in England you can always find a Crossman 12 who will stand up in Parliament and say a few words for you. In the Soviet Union you will find nothing like that, but behind the scenes, if the people are satisfied that the