War Veterans Rap State Department Stand on Soviet Anti-semitism

State Department opposition to a Senate denunciation of Soviet anti-Semitism may be viewed by some as “a whitewash of a shameful problem, ” national commander Ralph Plofsky,of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S. A, today told Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

In a letter to the Secretary, Mr,Plofsky asked the State Department “to desist from a position already repudiated by the votes of almost the entire Senate. ” He made reference to adoption by the Senate on September 24 of an amendment to the Foreign Aid bill, voicing the sense of Congress against the rising tide of Soviet anti-Semitism.The resolution-was adopted by a vote of virtually the entire Senate, with only one vote in opposition, despite a State Department letter recommending action against the amendment.”