A Jewish delegation may visit the Soviet Union “in the not too distant future,” to make an on-the-spot investigation of the situation of the Jews there, it was stated here by officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The CJC would “give consideration, in due course,” to the possibility of Joining such a delegation, if the Canadian Jewish Congress is asked to join, the officials said.
Meanwhile, the CJC executive committee, at a meeting presided over by chairman Monroe Abbey, reiterated its adherence to a 1959 resolution which proclaimed the organization’s “deepest anguish at the plight and isolation of its brethren in Russia.” The executive committee also reaffirmed the 1959 recommendation that it take, on behalf of the Congress, “whatever steps it deems fit, both alone and with other organizations, to achieve the full ethnic, cultural and religious rights of Jewry in the Soviet Union.” Such steps, it was emphasized, would be taken only in such a way as to harmonize “with the viewpoints and activities of the World Jewish Congress. World Conference of Jewish Organizations, and others.”
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