Soviet discrimination against Jews was cited here yesterday by U. S. Solicitor of Labor Stuart Rothman at a session of the International Labor Organization committee on forced labor.
Quoting from a statement made in Moscow by Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Communist Party, to a French Socialist delegation visiting Russia, Mr. Rothman chided the Soviet delegate Prof. A. Arutinunian over the fact that Jews in the Soviet Union are, according to Khrushchev, restricted in professional positions to the relative proportion of Jews in the Soviet population.
“What can happen to one group, can happen to any group,” the U. S. official stated. “International conventions have little meaning where there are not constitutional provisions guaranteeing to each and every individual equal protection of the laws in the country.” Prof. Arutiunian replied that all was not perfect in many countries, including his own.
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