The World Jewish Congress will approach the Soviet authorities for permission to send a delegation to the Soviet Union to study conditions of Jewish life there, it was revealed here today by Dr. A. Tartakower, chairman of the Israeli WJC executive.
Dr. Tartakower, who just returned from a meeting of the coordinating committee of the World Jewish Congress, which took place in Geneva writer the chairmanship of Dr. Nahum Goldmann, indicated that a decision to this effect was taken at the Geneva session.
He also reported that the WJC is preparing a petition, which would be signed by Jewish and non-Jewish scholars and sent to the Rumanian authorities, asking them to release Zionist and Jewish community leaders and writers who have been held under arrest there for many months.
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