“A dossier of what by American standards would seem to be innocuous conduct, is kept on every Soviet Jew so that an ever-present bureaucracy can move on an instant’s notice whenever and against whomever the convenience of the State appears to dictate.” This assessment, together with observations on the Soviet judicial process and the trials of Soviet Jews, is presented by Jacob Fuchsberg, past president of the American Trial Lawyers’ Association, in an article in the latest issue of the New York Law Journal. Fuchsberg spent several weeks this summer in the Soviet Union laying the ground work for a Soviet-American International Law Conference. At the request of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, he looked into cases of Soviet Jews who are facing trials. He also met with Soviet Procurator General Roman Rudenko and other judicial officials.
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