The State Department today warned against Senate adoption of an amendment proposed by Sen. John W. Bricker, of Ohio, which would prevent American ratification of the United Nations Conventions on Human Rights and Genocide.
Acting Secretary of State David K. Bruce testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to urge rejection of the amendment. He said its enactment “would jeopardize the influence of the United States in the world today.”
“I believe that if the Government were prohibited from entering into any such treaties, we must reckon with the obvious fact that the United States would have lost its standing in the forum of world politics to attack the despotism of the Kremlin,” Mr. Bruce said.
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