Jewish Groups Assail USSR Exit Tax

The American Jewish Congress today firmly rejected “any suggestion that extortionate fees” for the exit of Soviet Jews be paid to the USSR. A resolution adopted at a meeting of the Congress’ national Executive Committee, declared that “Blackmail has no limit, end the demands of the blackmailer can never be finally satisfied.” The resolution added: “Instead, we rededicate ourselves to support of international efforts now under way to induce the Soviet government to revoke this infamous decree.” In a similar action yesterday, Leon H. Keyserling, president of the National Committee for Labor Israel, assailed the exit tax as “blatant anti-Semitic act” and called upon “all free men and women to protest against the continuation of this policy.”