Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft today promised rapid action on a Senate resolution condemning Soviet anti-Semitism. Meanwhile, he blocked efforts to bring such a resolution to an immediate vote on the grounds that the proposed version was too weak.
Sen. Taft had the resolution sent to the Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is a member, and promised it would be reported back on the floor of the Senate before the end of the week. The resolution calls for American Government protests against the Soviet Union, Sen. Irving M. Ives announced that he would add an appeal for United Nations action on anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain.
The original resolution was introduced by Sen. Tom Murray, of Montana, in a form that expresses “a sense of shock” at anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. The resolution called on the United States to ask the Kremlin to “remove all causes for the fears that have arisen throughout the world concerning the future security of the Jewish people now residing within the borders of the U.S.S.R. “
Sen. Ives said he had received expressions of concern from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and United Nations delegate Henry Cabot Lodge* Jr. Sen, Guy M. Gillette, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the Soviet Union’s break with Israel should not stop the United States determination to build a Middle East defense organization. He characterized Russia’s anti-Israel move as an attempt to win the Arab world away from the west.
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