Some 20 presidents of Canadian Jewish organizations breached a police cordon and automobile blockade Thursday night to ring the front-door bell of the Soviet Embassy. There was no answer, however, and the iron gates remained closed. Henry Steinberg, chairman of the biennial convention of the Zionist Federation of Canada, which opened here Thursday night, told newsmen that Soviet Ambassador Sviatoslav Miroshnichenko had not answered a request submitted five days earlier for a five-minute visit by Jewish leaders to present a petition condemning “the barbaric ransom imposed by the Soviet government on Soviet Jews.” The petition told Soviet Jews: “We shall never forget you. We shall continue fighting for your rights. We shall overcome.”
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