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Chairman of Congressional Body Lauds Jewish Witnesses on Russia

May 13, 1965
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Rep. Edna Kelly, chairman of the subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which for the last three days has been conducting hearings on proposals that Congress condemn Soviet anti-Semitism, today commended the leaders of American Jewry who have been testifying here on those proposals.

Mrs. Kelly and another subcommittee member, Rep. James G. Fulton, who conducted most of the questioning of witnesses at yesterday’s session, emphasized today that the witnesses had given” “excellent advice” to Congress, and agreed specifically with those witnesses who had advised that “firmer action on the part of the U. S. Government” is needed on this issue.

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