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Inquiry Commission Exposes Kremlin injustkes
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titions was given to the State De-
"illegitimate measures to coun- partment for transmittal to the
ter the protest actions" by Jew- Soviet government. They ask that:
ish groups. "The charge of anti- the trials be stopped; those Jews
Soviety activity against those who so desire, be allow to emigrate
seeking repatriation is ridicu- to Israel; and that the Jews who
remain in the Soviet Union be free
lous."
4. "Welcome signs of progress" to fully manifest their religion and
have become apparent recently their culture.
Mathilda Miller Cuneo, president
indicating that "those Jews who
wish to do so may in principle of the Women's Bar Association of
have hopes that if they are per- New York, outlined the interna-
sistent, they will succeed in ob- tionally a g re e d standards for
prisoners.
taining permission to leave."
Bess Meyerson, New York City
Bayard Rustin, civil rights Lead-
er, served as chairman of the commissioner of c on s u m e r af-
fairs, chairman of the outdoor
inquiry commission.
Appearing before the commis- meetings, reviewed the current
sion was Dr. Thomas E. Bird, di- status of the Jews on trial and
rector of the scholars' program at awaiting trial.
Mrs. R i v k a Aleksandrovich,
Queens College, who presented a
report by Prof. John A. Armstrong mother of the 24-year-old nurse,
of the University of Wisconsin be- Ruth, who is in serious physical
cause the latter was unable to condition in a "strict regime"
attend the hearing. Armstrong, prison camp in Moldavia, reported
a lead in g Sovietologist and a on her daughter's status.
past president of the Ameri-
(New light on the conditions of
can Association of Slavic Studies, Jews in the USSR is cast in the
declared that "a very thin line first issue of "Soviet Jewish Af-
divides present Soviet anti-Israel fairs," to be published twice a
propaganda from the naive anti- year by the Institute of Jewish
Semitism of the Protocols of the Affairs and the World Jewish Con-
Elders of Zion."
gress.
Also testifying were District At-
(The magazine replaces the pre-
torneys Eugene Gold of Brooklyn vious "Exodus" publications. It is
and Robert F. Leonard of Genesee 'published in London.
County, Michigan, recent visitors
(The first issue includes an im-
to the Soviet Union, who said that portant essay, "The 'Right to
the USSR's own laws of criminal Leave" by Dr. William Korey. It
procedure had been flagrantly contains an illuminating article
violated in the trials of Jews seek- by Ivor Millman, "Jewish Popula-
ing to emigrate to Israel.
tion in USSR." Ch. Abramsky's
Ephraim Margolin, a San Fran- "The Jewish Labor Movement"
cisco lawyer who returned last and Z. Ben-Shlomo's "The Khrush-
month from a two-week study mis- chev Apocrypha" are equally in-
sion of the Soviet judicial system, structive. Revealing also is the
presented to the commission a let- special article by a non-Jew, on
ter by 10 young Jewish profession- the topic "Leaving Russia: A Per-
als of Kishinev to Soviet Com- sonal Experience."—P.S.)
munist Party Chief Leonid Brez-
Appeals by physicians are be-
hnev demanding the release of ing organized to secure the re-
nine Jews held without trial for lease of Miss Aleksandrovich.
nearly a year in Kishinev and who Kidney specialists warned that
went on trial Monday. The letter her condition is serious.
was smuggled out of the USSR by
They based their opinions on a
Margolin.
June 8 report from her former
Armstrong said that the Soviet personal physician, Dr. V. Port-
hostility to Jews existed long be- noy, writing from Ulpan Etsion,
fore its current Middle East poli- . Jerusalem.
cies. He noted that "severe anti-
Dr. Portnoy said last October
Jewish measures were evident that Miss Aleksandrovich experi-
as early as 1942 and reached ex ,- enced "a sharp deterioration in her
treme proportions in early 1948
state of health," and that he pre-
when the USSR was actively sup- scribed diet, bed rest, antibiotics,
porting the creation of the Israeli vascular dilators and symptomatic
state in Palestine and had vir- remedies to aid her. But, he con-
tually no ties to the Arab
tinued, "after a few days of the
states."
treatment, the patient was forcibly
The letter to Brezhnev said "our subjected to an examination of
friends never thought nor intended KGB (Soviet secret police) physi-
to undermine Soviet laws. They cians in charge of the patient,
never agitated against the USSR. about my error in the diagnosis.
They never slandered the USSR. Without making their own diag-
They only wanted to be as they are nosis, they wrote in the case hist-
and as they will remain, unbend- ory that the patient could be fur-
ing in their love for their home ther subjected to interrogations."
and their nation. We Jews of Ki- Dr. Portnoy wrote that he had dis-
shinev protest against these trials agreed with the KGB's conclusion
and that, after consulting with the
(yet to be held), demand the
mediate release of our friends section head, desided to resume
from jail and demand that we all his examination. "For this it was
be allowed to leave for our home- necessary to make a consultation
with the lung specialist," he wrote,
land (Israel)."
On Wednesday, an ad hoc com- "but the patient had already been
mittee of women's organizations taken for detention in prison."
Dr. Portnoy's letter was made
concerned with human rights set
before the public the diet of So- public at a press conference at
viet prisoners in "strict regime" headquarters of the Anti-Defama-
prison camps, in a food display tion League of Bnai Brith at which
Mrs. Aleksandrovich appealed to
and program in Dag Hammarsk-
jold Plaza across from the the American medical community
to aid her imprisoned daughter,
United Nations.
New York City Health Commis- because "I'm afraid she won't be
sioner Dr. Mary C. McLaughlin able to stand the four months" re-
analyzed the diet for its nutrient maining on her one-year conviction
and caloric values, and described for alleged anti-Soviet propaganda.
Eleven more Soviet Jewish moth-
its effect on the prisioners.
Rita Hauser, U.S. representative ers have petitioned the Soviet au-
to the United Nations Commission thorities to let their children go to
on Human Rights, stated the U.S. Israel even if they themselves
position on the Soviet violation of have to stay behind, Jewish
the rights of the Soviet Jewish sources reported. The Lithuanian
"prisoners of conscience." She ac- mothers—two of them identified
cepted petitions collected by vari- as Ruth Glickman and Anette
ous religious, civic and service Grossman—have a total of 14 off-
women's organizations, represent- spring.
Petitions signed by 300,000
ing over 1,000,000 women. The pe-
;
Americans—headed with the sig-
natures of the governors of the
seven Northeastern states—and
pleading the cause of Soviet Jew-
ry were sent to Premier Aleksei
Kosygin in Moscow by Bnai
Brith District 1.
The signatures were gathered in
New York state and the six New
England states which comprise
Bnai Brith District 1. Heading the
petitions were the names of the
governors of New York, Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Vermont and
Maine. Many other state and var-
ious city officials also signed.
The United States ambassador
to Russia, Jacob Beame, has re-
portedly stressed to Jewish leaders
the importance of expressions of
concern by European nations and
European Communist par ti es
about, the condition of Soviet Jew-
ry. Speaking Monday to more than
20 top oficers of the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry
and the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organi-
zations, Beame said that the world
opinion on the issue of Soviet Jew-
ry is a key factor in determining
the future course of Soviet policy.
He noted, too, that internal factors
are also important in affecting So-
viet treatment of Russian Jews.
(Richard Maass of White Plains,
N.Y., chairman of the American
Jewish Committee's foreign affairs
commission, has been elected
chairman of the American Jewish
Conference on Soviet Jewry, suc-
ceeding Rabbi Herschel Schacter,
it was announced.
(At the same time, the Confer-
ence has been reconstituted, for
an initial emergency period of two
years, "to provide a focal point
through which all segments of the
American Jewish community can
maintain a continuing, dynamic
and activist program for Soviet
Jewry as a pri6rity concern.")
Five men picketed peacefully in
front of the Soviet United Nations
Mission for 90 minutes Sunday 'in
what Glenn Richter, national co-
ordinator of the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry, described as a
symbolic "Fathers' Day" vigil in
behalf of the Jewish fathers in
the Soviet Union whose children
are imprisoned for facing trial.
(In Tel Aviv, Joseph Kiarman,
the head of Youth Aliya, said the
movement was prepared to bring
to Israel, absorb and educate
Russian-Jewish children whose par-
ents are prohibited from emigrat-
ing. There are about 500 children
from Russia presently in Youth
Aliya centers.)
In Newark, N.J., the American
Jewish Congress' seventh "Hot-
Line on Soviet Jewry' has been
inaugurated by Gov. William T.
Cahill. In a taped message avail-
able to all who call 201-642-8662,
Cahill introduces Rabbi Israel S.
Dresner of Wayne, president of
the AJCongress' New Jersey Re-
gion. The AJCongress has simi-
lar "hot lines" in New York, Chi-
cago, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami
and Cleveland.
Official Says U.S. Govt.
Will Continue to Speak-Up
GENEVA (JTA) — Ambassador
Francis L. Kellogg, special assist-
ant for refugee and migration af-
fairs to the United States secre-
tary of state, asserted that the
U.S. will continue to speak and act
for swift and complete restitution
of the rights of Soviet Jews and
other Soviet minorities, including
the right of emigration. Speaking
at a conference on resettlement aid
to Jews around the world sponsor-
ed by the United Hias Service,
Kellogg agreed that the treatment
of Soviet Jews violated interna-
tional agreements. Gaynor Jacob-
son, executive vice-president of
United Hias, pointed out that under
the Universal Declaration of Hu-
man Rights, "Everyone has the
right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of
each state. Everyone has the right
to leave any country, including
his own, and to return to • his
country."
John Thomas, director of the
Inter. government Committee for
European Migration, said that the
20-year-old organization has reset-
tled more than 1,800,000 persons,
half of them refugees, with the aid
of the U.S. Refugee Program, the
United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, voluntary agencies
and various governments.
Conclave of Baptists, Jews
Urges Amnesty for Ruth;
New Trials Denounced
CINCINNATI (JTA)—A four-day
interfaith conference of Southern
Baptists and Jewish scholars clos-
ed here with the adoption of a
resolution pleading for "amnesty"
for Ruth Aleksandrovich "and the
other defendants of conscience who
have been repressed." The resolu-
tion, which sharply condemned the
treatment of Jews, Baptists and
other Christians in the Soviet
Union, condemned "the unjust con-
finement of the ailing Ruth Alek-
sandrovich in a brutalizing labor
camp which imperils her life." It
also denounced "the forthcoming
trials in Kishinev, scene of Czarist
pogroms, and in Odessa of Soviet
citizens who are being denied re-
ligious liberty, cultural self-deter-
mination and the right to emi-
grate, a right to which the Soviet
Union is pledged as a signer of
the United Nations Universal Dec-
laration of Human. Rights."
Sverdlovsk Defendant
Gets 3-Year Sentence
LONDON (JTA) — Information
reaching here confirmed that Val-
eriy Kukui was tried and sentenced
on June 17 in Sverdlovsk to three
years' imprisonment in a labor
camp. According to Jewish sources,
the trial was secret. Kukui report-
edly was charged with activities
harmful to the Soviet Union. The
same sources noted that while
Kukui had actually protested the
harsh sentences handed down in
the first Leningrad trial last De-
cember, he had never engaged in
any activities which could be harm-
ful to the Soviet Union.
Shur Goes on Hunger Strike
to Protest Charges Against Him
NEW YORK (JTA) Hind. ZaI-
manovich Shur, the Soviet Jewish
defendant in Kishinev who reported
Tuesday that he had been offered
a "judicial bribe" by the prose-
cution, went on a hunger strike
Wednesday to protest the charges
of anti-Soviet agitItion and propa-
ganda against him.
authorities summoned the 35-year-
Jewish sources here reported the
old Shur's mother and uncle to
persuade them to convince him to
discontinue his hunger strike, the
sources said, but it was not im-
mediately known if the plea was
successful.
Shur was reported by Riga
friends Tuesday to have declared
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