More than 1,000 young Canadian Jews in various parts of Canada sent letters to the captain of the new Soviet passenger liner, Alexander Pushkin, which today made its second call at the port of Montreal, urging the Soviet Government to grant Jews in the USSR the same rights accorded other Soviet citizens. Many of the letters, which were delivered aboard the Soviet liner when it docked here, stressed that an improvement in the plight of Soviet Jewry would enable Soviet Jewish youth and Jewish youth in other parts of the world to participate in a cultural exchange program.
Last month, when the liner, which now regularly sails between Leningrad and Montreal, made its maiden voyage to Canada, a similar protest over the plight of Soviet Jewry was presented to the ship’s captain, Agram Ogamov.
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