Communist Congress May Determine Exodus
that the report may have been a blit, Vladimir Osherovich Mogil-
Soviet propaganda maneuver to ever, and the mother of Hillel
sa,
Vilna.
No men-
tion Riga,
was Kiev
made and
of five
Jewish
fami- quiet public opinion in the West. Shur, all from Leningrad, and the
lies said to be due in Israel Mon_ But Immigration Minister Nathan wife of Semeon Abramovich Levit
.no . reason not from Kishinev.
day night. More planes with Soviet Peled said `'there is
oscow. ficance to
Well informed Jewish sources
immigrants, including chartered to attach from M signi "
the news irom
here described as "exaggerated"
aircraft, are expected within a
(Authoritative Soviet sources de- a report from Moscow published
few days.
(Continued from Page 1)
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, March 26, 1971
Al's Foreign Car Service
nied the report that 300,000 exit in the Los Angeles Times that
Many of the newcomers were
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Agriculture Minister Chaim Givatisources said such reports were Union in record numbers since the
Alfons G. Rehme
who was at the airport to .welcome' irresponsible and absurd" and beginning of 1971. The sources told
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a relative, a 42-year-old electrical warned that they cou
engineer from Kiev. One of theeffect of inhibiting Jewish emigra- no confirmation of such an exodus
immigrants, Devorah Netzer, em- tion rather than aiding it. The of Jews which Times correspondent
. indication was the persistance of Harry Trimborn called "unprece-
braced her sister, Dr. Bluma Dis
kin. One of the immigrants, reports of large-scale visa grants dented in the 53-year history of
Efraim Possek, told newsmen he to Jews might force Soviet authori- the Soviet Union."
The Moscow sources said more
had waited six years until his a p- ties to clamp down for fear that
plication for an exit visa was other Soviet minorities might de than 474 Soviet Jews have been
approved. He said he had to renew mand emigration rights.)
allowed to emigrate to Israel since
(According to reports from Mos- the first of the year, "a figure far
his application each year.
.
dis-
Possek brought with him an an- cow, Jewish sources said they had higher than the 92 recently dis-
information that virtually every closed in Jerusalem." According
cient Torah scroll that has been
of the
th to sources in Russia, a total of
in his family for generations. He applicant in Kiev, capital l o
t 1,000 Jews were permitted to leave
i i
to
plans to present it to Kfar Chabad Ukraine, receive d permission
said during all of last year.
where his father lives. He said leave in recent days. They sa
Soviet customs officials demanded t there were also rumors that large
numbers of Jews in Latvia and
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object. He said the officials were office in Moscow remained
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Sources described as "authori- Soviet Jews would have on Israel's proves that he or she has been
mini-
tative" claimed that Soviet au- absorption capacity and economy. cured of the drug habit, the mini-
thorities have started a campaign Peled said, "should the report stry said.
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gration rights. The same sources a very difficult challenge."
-Moshe Rivlin, director general
also said .that preparations were
being made for a "show trial" of the Jewish Agency, told the
of Jews in Riga who have been JTA that the absorption of 300,000
active in - the movement for the immigrants would cost hundreds
of millions if not billions of dol-
right to emigrate to Israel. The
trial is supposed to begin at the Lars. "We shall have no control
over the rate of immigration, but
end of April, the source said.
The reports were presented at a we will certainly not do anything
meeting of the Israeli Council for to slow it," he said. "We shall
Russian Jewry. S p e a k e r s de- be glad to take them in even if
flounced unconfirmed but per- all the 300,000 were to come in
sistent reports from Russia that one year." He recalled that during
Soviet authorities were easing their the first year-and-a-half of Israel's
independence, about 300,000 immi-
policy On exit visas for Jews.
Jewish products. This, understandably,_
The purpose of this message is to
They said such reports. were in- grants arrived, "but then our con-
„r.
gave rise to a number of protests.
deny
recent
reports—false
reports—al-
spired by the authorities as a ditions and possibilities were much
As soon as our management in NeW -
propaganda ruse to divert world more limited than today."
leging that Mobil is involved in a world-
Maj. Grischa Feigin, the for-
York learned of the letter, we took steps
opinion from the plight of Soviet
wide boycott of Jewish products.
Jews. The sources said that while mer Red Army hero who re-
to rectify the situation. As a result, we
These
reports
deeply
trouble
Mobil
the reports were circulating, Geor- turned his medals and agitated
withdrew all prior instructions to sup-
employees,
dealers,
shareholders,
successfully
for
permission
to
gian Jews who signed petitions
pliers. We informed them that our pur-
business associates, customers, and
were being forced to declare that migrate to Israel, was awarded
chasing policy provides, as it always
suppliers. We are taking this opportu-
their signatures were forgeries. the Badge of the Palmach,
The Russians have chosen Geor- named after the Jewish fighting
did, that quality, availability, and price
nity to make it clear that such allega-
gia for their campaign against the force of World War II and the
are the only criteria for the provision-
tions
are
erroneous.
Jews because it is remote from War of Independence. The pre-
ing of any of our ships.
Here
are
the
facts:
sentation
was
made
by
Deputy
Moscow and far from the eyes and
We notified 24 major American-Jew-
Last
year,
a
London-based
marine
newsmen,
the
Premier
Yigal
Allon,
a
former
ears of foreign
ish organizations of our action through
sources claimed. Palmach commander.
subsidiary of our company that handles
Allon said the badge was meant
a letter from a member of our manage-
Reports That Large
the provisioning of part of our foreign-
as a replacement for the medals
Numbers of Soviet Jews
ment to a representative . of the Presi-
flag
fleet
sent
a
letter
to
ships'
sup-
Feigin had returned to the ICrem-
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dents
Conference of those organiza-
pliers. Several of our vessels had been
• JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli au- lin in protest against the treat-
tions.
fined
for
carrying,
as
ships'
stores,
thorities are puzzling over whether ment of Soviet Jews. Anon added
We have tried in other ways to cor-
recent reports that large numbers that he had been informed that
products that could not be imported
rect
the misstatement of our position.
of Soviet Jews are receiving exit Jewish youngsters in Leningrad
under the laws of one of the countries
visas indicate a softening of Soviet were publishing an "underground"
We have held meetings with represen-
where
these
ships
call.
So
the
sup-
policy or a temporary measure to newspaper, using as its motto the
tatives of leading Jewish organizations.
pliers were asked to help our ships
avoid embarrassing incidents when promise made by Allon on his visit
We have called on newspaper editors.
operate within the law.
the World Communist Party Con- there: "If I forget thee, Soviet
We are writing and speaking to every-
gress convenes in Moscow 'at the Jewry, let my right hand forget
However, the letter, which was writ-
one who has expressed his concern
end of March. Officials dealing its cunning."
ten by an employee who was far below
The deputy premier also said he
with Soviet immigration here were
to us.
the
policy-making
level,
inadvertently
unable to confirm a Moscow re- had received a Hebrew poem, titled
We at Mobil sincerely regret the mis-
violated Mobil's completely open pur-
port by Agence France Presse "The Song of the Redemption
understanding caused by the letter
chasing policy. The intent of the letter
that the Soviet government intends Fighters," from a resident of Mos-
from London.
to issue 300,000 exit visas to Jews cow.
was widely misinterpreted, leading the
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