The Conference on Soviet Jewry decided to send a delegation to A. Winogradov, the Soviet Ambassador to France, in an effort to arrange a meeting between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, it was disclosed today. The conference took place last week. The Russian Ambassador is currently in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting and was expected to return to Paris at the end of September.
The Conference Secretariat meanwhile planned an effort to obtain additional signatures from leading world figures who did not attend the conference, which closed with an appeal to the Soviet Union to give Soviet Jewry equal cultural and religious rights with other minorities.
Dr. Goldmann told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency he was prepared to go to Moscow “only if I am assured of meeting Premier Khrushchev. Such an assurance would indicate that the Soviets are prepared to compromise and to grant Jewish communities equal rights with other minorities in the Soviet Union.”
The Conference participants planned to remain in contact with Daniel Mayer, head of the League for the Rights of Man who served as chairman for the conference with some hope of forming a permanent “Committee for Russian Jewry.” Dr. Goldmann said it was too early to talk about a new organization but indicated that a committee would be set up of leading Jewish and non-Jewish personalities known for their support of the idea of relaxation of international tensions who would act on behalf of Russian Jewry.
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