Two hundred and twenty-five professors and instructors at twenty British universities signed a full-page advertisement that will appear in the Times of London tomorrow urging the Soviet Union to grant Russian Jews the rights accorded to all other ethnic and national minorities in the USSR.
The appeal was sponsored by the Inter-University Jewish Federation and the Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry which are comprised of Jewish and non-Jewish students. It called on Prime Minister Kosygin to honor his pledge of last year that Russian Jews who wish too may emigrate in order to be reunited with their families in other countries. Gordon Hausmann, speaking for the organizers, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the signatures were collected on very short notice and accurately reflected the feeling in academic circles and among British intellectuals generally on what they consider a grave moral issue. One of the signers was Sir William Hayter, former British Ambassador to Moscow, who now teaches at New College.
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