UN Secretariat Charged With Suppressing Material on Russian Treatment of Jews UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Is- rael accused the United Nations secretariat, and by implication, Secretary General U Thant, of knuckling under to Soviet pressure and suppressing material dealing with the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union which Israel had asked to be circulated to all mem- bers of the United Nations as a General Assembly document. Ambassador Yosef Tekoah told a crowded press conference here that the Israeli request had been made Jan. 30. Israel asked that copies of an appeal by 25 Moscow Jews for United Nations assistance in securing the right to leave the Soviet Union for resettlement in Israel be circulated with the Is- raeli letter on the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. On Feb. 11, Ambassador Tekoah said, he was advised that the Is- raeli letter would not be circulated because it did not refer to a pend- ing item on the agenda of the last General Assembly or an item on the provisional agenda of the forth- coming General Assembly. But Tekoah charged that the real rea- son for the UN decision was pres- sure from Ambassador Jacob Malik, head of the Soviet delega- tion to the UN. He called the UN capitulation in "international scan- dal." The Israeli envoy termed the episode "a further expression of IF YOU TURN NU VITISSI1111 MIDI DOWN YOU WON'T NNO A FIND WINI THAN Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich. 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ISRAEL TOUR FOR TEENAGERS HADASSAH ZIONIST YOUTH COMMISSION 116 N. 14th St. • New York. N. Y. 10011 (212) ORegon 5-1164 the double standard to which Is- rael has been subjected for years in the United Nations" which, he said, made it impossible for Is- rael to obtain justice at the hands of UN organs. j The vehemence of the Soviet ef- forts to suppress news of the treatment of the 3,500,000 Jews within the Soviet borders, he said, was a testimony to the seriousness of the situation of Soviet Jewry and of the extent to which the Jews there were acting to secure the right to emigrate. He said that the document he had submitted to Secretary Gen- eral U Thant on Jan. 27—an ap- peal from 25 Jews resident in Mos- cow—had become a petition being signed by Jews in all parts of the Soviet Union. Information has subsequently been received here, he said, of the widespread distribution of this petition in the Soviet Union and copies have been received bearing the signatures of Jews from Riga in the former Latvian Republic and from the Georgian Republic. Tekoah parried' one reporter's question as to whether be held the secretary general directly responsible for the suppression of the documents, asserting that this was a matter for individual interpretation. In response to a further question, he said that the Israelis had received no informa- tion that Thant was using his "good offices" in behalf of So- viet Jews as Israel had request- ed of him. Correspondents leaving the press conference were informed that there would be a UN briefing im- mediately in the press room. Here, the UN spokesman made available the text of a letter from the head of the UN legal section to Tekoah explaining that without the rele- vant General Assembly agenda item, the Israeli letter and accom- panying documents could not be transmitted as a General Assem- bly document. The UN spokesman angrily dis- puted Tekoah's assertion that he had been informed by secretariat officials that the formalistic rea- sons for the refusal were "flimsy" and challenged Tekoah to identify the officials. He said Israel could have secur- ed distribution of the documents in the form of an "aide memoire" and indicated that the secretary general was considering asking the General Assembly for a ruling on future cases. The UN spokesman said that the Soviet Union had objected to the circulation of a similar letter and documents last December but said he had no information to bear out Tekoah's charges that the Russians had protested against the distribu- tion of the latest Israeli letter. He insisted that the secretariat decision was in conformity with UN precedent and legality and that it was not the result of protest by another state. In London, a committee that includes an Israeli cabinet minis- ter and a member of the Knes- set has been formed to conduct a public campaign "for the re- lease of Soviet Jews and their natural rights to return to their homeland." Formation of the committee was announced by the Zionist Revision. ists, a militant Zionist group. Com- mittee members include Chains Landau of the Herut Party, a minister - without - portfolio in the Israeli government; Dr. Benjamin Halevi, MK; Joseph Klarman, a member of the Jewish Agency Executive; and Dr. Joseph Schect- man, an author and journalist. The Jewish community of Japan has expressed its deep concern over the plight of their brethren, the 18 Georgian Jewish families, who have appealed to the UN Commission on Human Rights for assistance to leave the Soviet Union to be reunited with their families. In a cable to the commission, Rabbi Marvin Tokayer stated "The Jewish community of Japan joins with their co-religionists all over the world in urging prompt action by the relevant Soviet auth- orities, an appeal to the UN com- mission to do your utmost to help these families fulfill their desire and aspirations. The Soviet ambassador to Brazil, Sergei Mikhailov, refused to re- ceive a local Jewish delegation protesting the treatment of Jews in Soviet Russia. The delegation, representing the Confederation of Brazilian Jews, intended to pre- sent him with a document citing the Universal Declaration of Hu- man Rights and the International Convention Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination. A spokesman for the Confedera- tion said the document was mailed to the Soviet Embassy after the delegation was turned away. He said the confederation would bring the matter of Soviet treat- ment of the Jews to the attention of Brazil's Foreign Minister. In Mexico City, leaders of Mexi- can Jewry tried to confer recently with the local Soviet ambassador but he refused to receive them to talk about the petition by 18 Jew- ish families from Soviet Georgia to leave for Israel. The memoran- dum of the delegation was publish- ed in the Mexican press in order to explain the situation of Soviet Jewry to the Mexican people. About 100 members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jew- ry celebrated the Feb. 20 birth- day of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin by staging a sur- prise birthday party at the Soviet UN Mission. The participants marched with signs as "Happy Birthday, Mr. Ko- sygin—Let My People Go!" and "Happy Birthday" in Hebrew and English to the accompaniment of a band. A Jewish resistance song smuggled from the USSR, "Otpusti Narod Moy—Let My Peo- ple Go!" was sung, and excerpts from appeals by Soviet Jews, also smuggled out, were read. A delegation of students headed by SSSJ National Coordinator Ja- cob Birnbaum went to the door of the mission carrying a giant foot- wide birthday cake inscribed with "Mr. K: Let My People Go!" and a Star of David. The cake, as well as an offer of vodka, were refused by the Russian officials. The students vowed to return each year on Kosygin's birthday until they could properly celebrate the fulfillment of Kosygin's pledge of December, 1966 for Jewish emigration. Not wanting to see a good cake go to waste, the demon- strators ate it themselves, giving some to police officials. SSSJ's New England branch sent a "singing birthday telegram to Kosygin at the Kremlin; and British students indicated their plans to begin a series of protests at the London Soviet Embassy. Never mix chemicals . . . may cause harmful reaction. Example: bleach mixed with ammonia gives off a harmful gas. 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