The House late yesterday unanimously adopted a concurrent resolution expressing the solidarity of the American people with the efforts by participants in the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry to “enlarge on human freedom” by helping Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union if they wish. About 350 Congressmen were in the chamber when the voice vote was called. No dissents were heard. The House resolution was sponsored by Rep. James Scheuer (D.NY). The Senate, on Feb. 5, also unanimously approved the resolution which expresses the sentiment of the Congress towards the conference that opens Feb. 17 in Brussels.
(In Albany, Gov. Hugh L. Carey issued a message yesterday to the conference in which he declared that the citizens of New York State “join you and assure you that your battle is our battle and expressed “our deep concern over the plight of the Jewish people in the Soviet Union.” The message was presented to Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold, chairman of the New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, one of the members of the New York delegation to the Brussels conference, who met with Carey at his office in Albany yesterday.)
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