Soviet Government officials recently visited the Soviet Republic of Georgia in a futile effort to persuade Jews there to withdraw their signatures from a public appeal for help to enable them to emigrate, according to a report by the American Jewish Committee. The Committee said the information indicating that Soviet Jews are resisting official pressures to discourage emigration came from the Committee’s Paris office. The report stated the Soviet officials were rebuffed in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and in Kutaissi where signers of the Nov. 10 letter refused to withdraw their names. The AJC report said the officials went to the Tbilisi synagogue on a Saturday morning and sought to convince the worshippers of the dangers to the Jewish community in the letter and that the reaction was one of indignation and protest from the worshippers.
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