Jewish Organizations Ask UN Body
to Review Soviet's Death Penalty
The Coordinating Board of
Jewish Organizations said it has
asked the United Nations Eco-
nomic and Social Council to
review the use of capital pun-
ishment for economic crimes.
The request, prompted by the
Soviet Union's execution of at
least 141 persons since May,
1961, for "economic offenses,"
was presented in a letter by
Label A. Katz, president of Bnai
Brith and co-chairman of CBJO,
to Ambassador Alfonso Patino
of Columbia, president of the
Economic and Social Council.
The Council recently devoted a
one-day session to problems of
capital punishment.
The Coordinating •Board, com-
posed of Bnai Brith, the Board
of Deputies of British Jews and
the South African Jewish Board
of Deputies, noted that in con-
trast to United Nations' studies
which show "a growing abhor-
rence throughout the civilized
world of the appliCation of capi-
tal punishment" and a constant
narrowing of its use to "crimes
of horror, such as murder and
rape, directed against human
life itself," the U.S.S.R. and its
15 constituent republics have
reinstituted • the death sentence
for such offenses as embezzle-
ment of state funds, pilfering
of public property and currency
speculation. Since inception of
this policy "an average of at
least one person has been exe-
cuted each week," the CBJO
letter declared.
The Jewish community, the
letter added, "has been pro-
foundly disturbed" by the fact
that 83 of those who have suf-
fered the death penalty were
Jews.
Since Soviet Jewry represents
about one per cent of the
U.S.S.R.'s population, the "gross
disproportion" of finding it re-
sponsible for 60 per cent of the
economic crimes warranting a
death penalty "corresponds
neither to reason nor to fact,"
CBJO declared.
It charged Soviet authorities
with acting "out of a desire to
offer up a scapegoat for the
social and economic ills afflict-
ing their own society."
(The New York Herald Trib-
une reported from Moscow that
at least eight persons with Jew-
ish names were executed, while
seven others whose names seem-
ed Jewish were given long
prison sentences, in another
mass trial of Soviet citizens
charged with "economic crimes."
The trial was reportedly held
in Lvov, in the Ukraine, two
months ago. The men believed
Jews given the death sentence
were identified as A. S. Aber-
bukh, Y. M. Fuks, F. D. Mesk-
hov, E. I. Akselrud, M. I. Rub-
ashny, S. P. Elgurt, D. S. Rozen-
blat and D. I. Zkharinsky.)
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book on Israel's history, geog-
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ment written by Johannes Gies-
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officer. Giesberts has been or-
ganizing the school children's
study tours of Israel for some
time.
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Ashkenazy Defeds
Announcement was made in
London this week that the fa-
mous Soviet Russian pianist,
Vladimir Ashkenazy, has de-
cided not to return to Russia.
He has been given asylum in
Great Britain where he is now
giving a series of concerts. The
reason for his defection has not
been given, but it is known that
he has been critical of Russian
restrictions on artists.
Yeiffushenko Halted
New attacks have been made
on the USSR press upon Yev-
geny Yevtushenko, the young
poet whose "Babi Yar" was an
attack on anti-Semitism and
who recently modified - his views
in a public statement which was
interpreted as a forced "apol-
ogy" for his first views.
Yevtushenko, who was to
have appeared at a number of
public functions at universities
in this country, has cancelled
his tour. He cabled Prof. Albert
Todd, of Indiana University,
that he won't come here "be-
cause of illness."
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