Adlai Stevenson, American Ambassador to the United Nations, today informed Senator Kenneth Keating, New York Republican, that he has requested the State Department to carefully follow the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union “with a view to possible new initiatives in the United Nations.”
In a letter to the Senator, Mr. Stevenson said he had heard recent reports on persecution of Jews in Russia and “has been shocked and disturbed by such news. I am so new at my job here that I do not feel in a position to comment on your suggestions about new actions by the United Nations,” he wrote to Sen. Keating. “Racial discrimination in all its forms is, of course, condemned by the United Nations Charter and by the Declaration on Human Rights. Much is being done by the UN to deal with the problem.”
Mr. Stevenson sent a copy of the Keating letter on the Jewish issue to the State Department along with his request for pursuit of the matter.
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