300 Members of Parliament Express Concern
for Soviet Jewry as Kosygin Pays Visit
o Britain; 2,000 March on Embassy
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, February 17, 1967
House of Lords Hears Plea for Freeing Hess From Jail
LONDON (JTA) — Appeals
were voiced in the House of Lords
last weekend for the British gov-
ernment to urge Soviet Prime
Minister Alexei N. Kosygin, now
visiting this country, to agree to
the release of Rudolf Hess, the
only defendant at the Nuremberg
trials still incarcerated at Spandau
Prison, in West Berlin.
Lord Bertrand Russell said he
Earlier, representatives of the
LONDON (JTA)—Major Jewish Soviet Jewry. The marchers
organizations in Britain joined included Rabbi Saul Amias and British Jewish community sub
with the Board of Deputies of Brit- two Catholic priests. The demon- mitted a memorandum to the
stration was orderly, and there
ish Jews Sunday in a special meet-
Soviet leader urging full imple-
ing aimed at expressing "the deep were no incidents.
mentation of his pledge. It was
and solemn concern of the whole
An appeal to Premier Kosygin in
Jewish community about the posi- behalf of Soviet Jewry was con- signed by the board of deputies,
tion of Soviet Jewry."
tained in a letter published in Sat- the chief Rabbinate, the office of Israeli Schools to Observe
The meeting was keyed to the urday's London Times, signed by the Haham, who is the leader of Week to Study Jews in USSR
fact that Soviet Premier Alexei N. eight leading university professors the Sephardic community, and by
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
Kosygin, on a state visit to Britain, and the noted playwright-author, all other major Jewish organiza- officials announced Sunday that
tions of the country.
has refused to meet with a Jewish Bernard Kops.
next week will be dedicated to
The document concluded with Soviet Jewry in all Israeli ele-
relegation to discuss the fate of
The letter hailed Kosygin's visit
Russian Jews.
as a welcome sign of closer British- an appeal in the name of British mentary schools. Special lectures
Sir Barnett Janner, Labor mem- Russian relations, but called on Jewry for the Jews of the Soviet will be given on the cultural and
ber of Parliament and head of the him to fulfill his promise, made Union, declaring: "Speaking on religious aspects of Russian Jewish
board's commission on foreign af- during his recent visit to France, behalf of the Jewish community life.
of the United Kingdom, numbering
fairs, informed the gathering that that Soviet Jews would be allowed
half
a million, we appeal to the
to
leave
the
country
to
rejoin
their
some 300 MPs had now signed the
Soviet government to enable the
parliamentary motion on Soviet families in other lands.
reunion of families and to give to
Jewery, but stressed that there
Prime Minister Wilson assured their Jewish community the same
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ber of signatures to appear on any
The statement was in reply to
motion in the life of this Parlia- Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, Conservative,
ment.
who had asked whether "in the
The entire gathering rose and present atmosphere of good will,"
stood with heads covered as Dr. Wilson would follow up the re-
Solomon Gaon, Haham of the Brit- quests of British Jewry and mem-
ish Sephardic community, and a bers of Parliament for Kosygin
representative of the chief rab- to take steps to alleviate the hard-
binate, joined in reciting a special ships of Jews in the USSR. "Some-
prayer for Soviet Jewry.
thing like 300 members of Parlia-
Solomon Teff, president of the ment have signed a motion on
board of deputies, informed the this problem." Sir Ian told Wilson:
gathering that efforts to secure a "It is an issue on which they feel
meeting with Premier Kosygin on strongly."
the question of Soviet Jewry were
Wilson replied that, while it
again rebuffed when Teff was per- was necessary that some individual
sonally introduced to Kosygin by matters had to be taken up sep-
British Prime Minister Harold arately with Kosygin, rather than
Wilson at a reception at Lancas- in the main plenary part of the
ter House here.
discussion, Sir Ian "could be as-
sured" that the question has been
Teff, who repeated the request
for a meeting in the presence of raised every time the British
the Soviet ambassador, was told Foreign minister had met repre-
by the latter that such a meet- sentatives of the Soviet govern-
ing was impossible." Teff told ment. Wilson added: "We all feel
Sunday's gathering that "some- strongly about this. But the Soviet
thing was achieved by the fact government does not admit some
that the premier introduced a of the statements we had made
representative of the board of on the issue, and, of course, re-
glirds it as an internal matter."
deputies to Mr. Kosygin." He
stressed that the implications
Two humanitarian appeals
would not be lost on the Soviet
were made Monday to Preinier
authorities or on Soviet Jewry.
Kosygin on behalf of the Jews
in the Soviet Union.
Sir Barnett was one of the lead-
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Lord Bertrand Russell, long con-
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Writing in the Guardian today, leave Russia to rejoin their fam-
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Two distinguished humanitar-
easier for some of them."
Describing 'the lack of cultural ians, the Rev. • James Parkes and
and religious facilities for the Sir James Foster, jointly appealed
Jews in the. Soviet Union, the cor- to the Soviet premier to intervene
respondent noted that "Soviet and show mercy in "certain in-
policy in the past has been di- dividual cases that have caused
rected to achieving the cultural concern for a number of years."
They cited two of these special
genocide of the Jewish commu-
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Some 2,000 students and per- Riga, now serving a sentence of
sonalities in academic life life imprisonment, and Gedalia
marched from Hyde Park to Pechersky of Leningrad, who was
the Soviet Embassy, where they sentenced to 15 years' imprison-
presented a memorandum on ment in 1961.
believed Russia was the only one
of the four major allied powers
who wanted to keep the former
Nazi leader in prison, and asked
what steps had been taken to
persuade that country to change
its mind.
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