Sen. Clifford P. Case, New Jersey Republican, said today that he believed the State Department will drop its opposition to a senate resolution against Soviet anti-Semitismand that he is joining with two senators of Jewish faith to reintroduce such a resolution.
Sen. Case said he has notified Senators Abraham Ribicoff, Connecticut Democrat, and Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, that he would join them in sponsoring a resolution “re-emphasizing the United States Senate’s condemnation of such persecution.”
“In the past,” Sen. Case stated, “the State Department has indicated its opposition to such a resolution, but I do not believe that the continued reports coming cut from behind the Iron Curtain relate such extreme punishment of Soviet Jewry that the State Department will alter its views,” Sen. Case voiced hope that “the Javits-Ribicoff-Case resolution will serve as a spur to the Johnson Administration to take a strong and firm stand in every forum at every opportunity in behalf of free exercise of religion by Jews and all others within the Soviet borders.”
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