Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott said here tonight that “the steadfast, head-on demand by the Jews in the Soviet Union for religious freedom and the freedom to emigrate to Israel may prove to be one of the most significant events in modern history.”
“The oldest, most powerful, totalitarian government of the twentieth century has been forced to give ground to a tiny minority and to the opinion mobilized in their behalf in this country and elsewhere,” the Pennsylvania Senator said in a speech prepared for delivery at a program here in his honor. “By their demands for more freedom, Soviet Jewry has stirred hope for every other oppressed group in the Soviet Union,” he said.
Sen. Scott spoke at a dinner of the Eastern Seaboard region of the American Technion Society at which he received the Society’s Albert Einstein Award, a placque. The Society announced that a dormitory at the Technion in Haifa is being named in honor of the Senator and Mrs. Scott. The award was presented jointly to Sen. Scott and to Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, who also spoke.
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