Sen. Hugh Scott, Republican of Pennsylvania, said today that the U.S. should support a declaration of freedom for the Soviet Jews, allowing them to leave the country if they wish. Scott, Senate minority leader, expressed his views in a letter sent to the University of Pennsylvania’s Hillel Foundation. “The tragic plight of the Jewish people in the Soviet Union demands that we continue and increase our efforts to bring the actions of the Soviet Union into national and worldwide focus,” Scott wrote. “Soviet Jews can no longer suffer in silence. Their plea for justice, smuggled to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, deserves our support,” he said.
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