Monroe Abbey, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, has advised Soviet Premier Alexsei N. Kosygin that “the continued protests and sit-ins by Jews in Moscow and other Soviet cities is evidence that substantial numbers of your Jewish citizens wish to emigrate because they are discriminated against.” Abbey’s message continued; “Soviet Jewry has a special claim on the conscience of mankind for it represents the last group of Jews who have survived the Holocaust. The Soviet Union is a signatory of the International Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the mobility of peoples, in addition, your statement in Paris of Dec, 2, 1966, guaranteeing joinder of families divided by Hitler’s war, has not been implemented.”
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