The Board of Deputies on British news reported today that its appeal to members of Parliament to support its campaign on behalf of Soviet Jews has brought nearly 120 responses since it was made last Thursday. Replies are still coming in the Board said. Among those who have responded are the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber; Denis Healy the “shadow” (Labor Party) Foreign Secretary; and Selwyn Lloyd. One respondent was Mrs. Renee Short, secretary of the Anglo Soviet Parliamentary Committee, who is a personal acquaintance of President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. She has written to them expressing anxiety over the recent Leningrad trial and urging them to allow Jews who so wish to emigrate to Israel.
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