Thousands of Russian Jews are still in Soviet jails or slave labor camps, the American Jewish Committee charged today in a statement releasing six points which it proposed to the State Department as a test of the sincerity of the new Soviet approach to the West. The test, unanimously approved by the AJC executive at a meeting here, called upon the USSR to:
Release from imprisonment all persons held on charges relating to their race, religion or national origin; restore freedom of worship to Jews; allow them to reopen their schools; offer them the opportunity to use their language, a press and distinctive cultural activities; reestablish full freedom of movement for all peoples in Eastern Europe, and permit the reunion of broken families and the transfer of orphans and homeless persons to places of shelter and care.
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