Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D. Minn.) declared here that “Everything must be done in order to pass in the Congress and in the Senate the resolution which calls upon President Nixon to place the agonizing problem of Soviet Jewry on the agenda during his discussions with the Kremlin leaders this coming May in Moscow.”
In a speech at the (Orthodox) Shaare Torah Congregation, the Presidential hopeful asserted that “The heroic militancy of Soviet Jewry is virtually setting a new example of unprecedented human dignity and unsurpassed human courage to all mankind.”
Soviet Jews, he said, “are offering a noble and valiant example to the enslaved peoples of the world as to how one is to fight for his rights and how to assert one’s human image in those very same places where the mighty revolutionaries were rendered totally helpless cowards with their human personalities totally crushed.”
The former Vice-President, who spoke here Sunday night to a full house of 500 persons while secret servicemen kept hundreds of others out for security reasons, also called on Washington to issue immediate “full legal recognition” to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He protested Israel’s having to pay for military materiel while other countries–which he did not name–get it gratis. Rep. William S. Moorhead (D.Pa.) urged the audience to come out en masse on Soviet Jewry Solidarity Day April 30 in support of “the three and a half million Jewish hostages languishing in the shadow of the Kremlin.”
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