Ambassador Jonathan B. Bingham, member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations last night charged the Soviet Union with a “sorry record” of anti-Semitism and said that Communist bloc delegations have shown “some thing less than wild enthusiasm” for UN efforts to combat religious intolerance.
Mr. Bingham told 1,100 guests attending a B’nai B’rith Youth Services dinner last right that the “hypocrisy” of Communist claims of religious freedom has been exposed by their “encouragement and practice of anti-Semitism.” “The one hopeful aspect of the sorry Soviet record,” he said, “is their obvious anxiety to conceal the truth. This design states that the Kremlin leaders are not insensitive to the pressures of world opinion.
Label A. Katz, president of B’nai B’rith, in a plea for UN action to outlaw religious discrimination, said the Soviet Union’s policy toward its Jews “calls for a formal condemnation by an international body.” He said community life in the USSR might be Improved by “persistent expressions of the moral indignation that free peoples should feel.”
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