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Title |tems-in-Political-Security Council Affairs (PSCA) Analysis - Human Rights: Soviet and Syrian Jewry
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Translated from Russian
Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations
2k November 1970
No. 559
.The Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations presents its compliments to the United States Mission and has the honour to make the following' statement: On the evening of 23 November, during a motion picture showing organized for foreign diplomats at the USSR Mission, a group of hooligans belonging to the so-called "Jewish Defense League" assembled outside the Mission building and engaged in noisy disturbances and choruses of abusive shouting. A number of members of this hooligan group in an automobile tried to break through the police barrier along the sidewalk and Mission building and drove on to the sidewalk, endangering some foreign diplomats entering the Mission building. Some other members of this hostile hooligan group tried to break into the Mission building. The outrageous anH intolerable actions of these Zionist hooligans inevitably interfered with the normal functioning of the Mission and the progress of the reception for foreign diplomats. The USSR Mission to the United Nations cannot but express its profound indignation at these new acts of hostile political hooliganism on the part of the Zionists; nor can it fail to draw the most serious attention of the United States Mission to the United Nations to the fact that this hooligan nob gathered in the immediate vicinity of the Mission building, thus rendering difficult the normal diplomatic activity of the USSR Mission. In bringing these facts to the notice of the United States Mission, the USSR Mission protests against these \'/anton hooligan escapades, carried out in the presence of a police detail which took no steps to restrain the hooligans,
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t ^*"**-~** ' -T' 70-26827 np -2- and again energetically insists that the competent United Statcc authorities take all necessary measures to prevent any recurrence of such hostile actions by hoolican Zionists in the immediate vicinity of the Mission building on 67th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, and that the USSR Mission to the United Nations be afforded normal conditions for its work. A copy of this note is being addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. IlOCTOflHHOE FIPEflCTABHTEJIbCTBO PERMANENT MISSION COK)3A COBETCKHX COU.HAJ1HCTHMECKHX OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST PECnyEJIHK REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS OPFAHHSAUHH OBTiEZlHHEHHblX HAU.HW 136 East 67th Street New York, N. Y. 10021
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1970 r. TO : The Secretary-General
FROM : Jean Gazarian
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
•• DEC ?970 UNITED NATIONS WmS NATIONS UNIES
NEW YORK
CAILI ADOHISH—ADRtttUI TBLKOHAPHieUg: UNATIONS NIWYORK
KFHCNCI, LE J12 USSR
The enclosed translation of a communication dated 30 November 1970 is transmitted %o the Permanent Missions of the States Members of the l!|nited Nations at the request of the Permanent Representative^o—A.f the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations.
1 December 1970 Translated from Russian
DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
New York, 50 November 1970
Sir, I have the honour to send you herewith a copy of a note from the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations, handed to the United States Mission on JO November 1970, concerning the intrusion into the building of the Permanent Mission by a group of unknown persons with the connivance of the police detachment responsible for the protection of this building. In bringing this matter to your attention, I would ask you to publish this letter, together with the attached note from the Permanent Mission addressed to the United States Mission to the United Nations, as an official United Nations document. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.
(Signed) Y. MALIK Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United Nations
His Excellency U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, New York. PERMANENT MISSION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS New York, 30 November 1970
No. 571 The Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations presents its compliments to the United States Mission to the United Nations and has the honour to refer to the following matter: On Sunday, 29 November 1970, at 4.30 p.m. a group of eight unknown persons, taking advantage of a moment when wives and children of members of the staff of the Permanent Mission were entering the Mission building, broke into the lobby of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations. The members of this group began to behave in a disorderly manner, raising an uproar and yelling hostile anti-Soviet slogans. Then, sitting on the floor in the lobby, they continued their disorderly behaviour in the premises of the Permanent Mission. They also stated that they were all members of Zionist organizations. In spite of insistent demands by the duty officer at the Permanent Mission that they should leave the premises, this group of Zionist hooligans continued to-remain in the building of the Permanent Mission. In this connexion, particular mention should be made of the fact that this group with obviously hostile intentions was able to break into the building of the Permanent Mission in spite of the' fact that a police detachment was on duty at the entrance. The police detachment took no steps to prevent this hostile group from entering the building of the Permanent Mission. It was only after insistent requests to the police by the duty officer at the Permanent Mission that these hooligans were removed from the Mission building. ' However, even then, the police not only failed to take any measures of coercion in regard to these
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Zionist hooligans, but permitted them on the contrary to cross to the opposite side of the street and continue their uproar and the shouting of hostile anti-Soviet slogans in the immediate vicinity of the building of the Permanent Mission. This group was soon joined by a large group of unknown persons vho had arrived especially, for the occasion and also took part in this hostile demonstration. It was only after a relatively long time, when a police officer describing himself as Inspector D. Fallek of the Fourth Police Division had arrived at the building of the Permanent Mission, that the participants in this demonstration were driven back from 67th Street - on which the building of the Permanent Mission is located - to the area of 3rd Avenue. The Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations condemns in the strongest possible manner this unprecedented violation of the diplomatic immunity and inviolability of the premises which it occupies, and it lodges a severe protest both on this count and in connexion with the inaction of the policemen who were responsible for protecting the building of the Permanent Mission and permitted an act of this kind to occur. The Permanent Mission urgently demands of the United States Mission and the United States authorities that all necessary steps should be taken to protect the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations from similar raids by bandits and intrusions by hostile elements into the building of the Permanent Mission, and it also demands that the above-mentioned group of trespassers who forcibly b'roke into the building of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations should be severely punished. JKB/eh <&: Or. Bunehe Mr. Harasimhan Mr. Rolz-Bennett Mrs.
Dear i¥of eespr 3*en ifer year lefctsr 4f S Bueasfesr 1970 of t&i |5«titl<5» vbieh the Academic Co&isittee on Jewry IB sending to Sr&al^' Ko«jrgirt. As ycu jaay fee aisar^,. Z tsstve Isees priva-fceiy dealing with certain aspects of the profrleja© of Soviet citizens 0f Jewlslt oirig4a'»'"^J^ at tissise vl1^ positive reswlt&. Ss.sen-tial to this end. is to keep say efforts a-wsy froa the glare of pufellci%» You m^* Ise sure that 2 shall continue to follov tbe isatter
to the Division of El^ts for to the usual Witb best wishec,
Professor Bans J. HANS MORGEMTHAU University ol Chicago City University ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ON SOVIET JEWRY Serrefary HARRIS SCHOF.NBERG 315 LEXINGTON AVENUE • NEW YORK, N.Y. 1OO16 SPONSORS (212) 689-740O EXTENSION 242 DAMH AARON Smith College' DANIEL BELL Columbia University SAUL BELLOW December 2, 1970 University ol Chicago MAX BLACK Cornell University JUSTUS BUCHLER Columbia University LEWIS A. COSER Brandeis University HERBERTS. DINERSTEIN John. Hopkins University RICHARD ELLMANN Northwestern University VICTOR ERLICH Yale University HERBERT FEIS Historian LEWIS S. FEUER University of Toronto U Thant MILTON FRIEDMAN University of Chicago Secretary-General WALTER GALENSON Cornell University United Nations ELI GINZBCRG Columbia University New York, N. Y. 10017 NATHAN GLAZER Harvard University LOUIS GOTTSCHALK University of Chicago My dear Secretary-General: HENRY F. GRAFF Columbia University LOUIS M. HACKER Columbia University In exactly one week, the world will celebrate OSCAR HANDLIN Harvard University Human Rights Day to mark the anniversary of the adoption PHILIP M. HAUSER University ol Chicago in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CAPL G. HEMPEL Princeton University This year, with the United Nations commemorating its own ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL Jewish Theological Seminary 25th birthday, Human Rights Day takes on particular RICHARD HOFSTADTER Columbia University significance. For the UN Charter gives a central emphasis BERT F. HOSELITZ University of Chicago to human rights and, in Articles 55 and 56, obliges the IRVING HOWE . Hunter College world organization to promote them. IRVING L. HOROWITZ Washington Univenity ABRAHAM KAPLAN The University ol Michigan One of the most vital parts of the Universal ALFRED KAZIN SUNY. Stony Brook Declaration of Human Rights is Article 13/2 which under- PETER B. KENEN Columbia University scores a principle that goes back to the Magna Garta and MILTON R. KONVITZ Cornell University offers the means for human survival. If an individual ROBERT LEKACHMAN SUNY, Stony Brook is threatened with deprivations, whether of a material ABBA LERNEH University of California, Berkeley or spiritual nature, "the right to leave any country" DANIEM. i.rL LERNEf. t becomes indispensable. MAX LERNER Srandeis University SEYMOUR M. LIPSET You yourself have been an eloquent champion of Harvard University SEYMOUR MELMAN the principle incorporated in Article 13/2. Last year, Columbia University ROBERT MERTON in the Introduction to the Annual Report of the Secretary- Columbia Univertity SIDNEY MORGENBESSER Columbia University General on the Work of the Organization, you urged on ERNEST NAGEL Columbia University humanitarian grounds certain governments to allow Jews, ALBERTS. SABIN Children's Hospital Research Fdn. confronted by difficult circumstances in their countries, ITHIEL OE SOU POOL M.I.T. to leave. MEYER SCHAPIRO Columbia University BENJAMIN I. SCHWARTZ Harvard University It is in this context that I have the honor of MELFORD E. SPIRO Univertity of California, submitting to you a copy of a petition which the Academic San Diego LIONEL TRILLING Committee on Soviet Jewry is sending to Premier Aleksei Columbia Ummiity MELVIN TUMIN Princeton Unlnnity GEORGE WALD Harvard Univtr»lly JACOB WOLFOWITZ Cornell Univ«r»ity - 2 -
Kosygin of the USSR. The petition is signed by some 2500 faculty members in approximately 150 universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. Their names are listed in an advertisement which will appear in The New York Times on Thursday, December 3.
The signers, many of whom are world-renowned scholars including Nobel Prize winners, come from a great variety of disciplines and hold sharply differing views on political, economic and social matters. But on one subject they are all agreed: the legal and moral right of Jews to leave the USSR in order to be reunited with members of their families in Israel.
We appeal to you to use your good offices to facilitate this humanitarian objective. The moment is urgent, Reports reaching us speak of contemplated show trials of Jews whose only crime has been their expressed desire to remain Jews and to be permitted to leave for Israel. With highest regards.
Respectfully,
Hans u. Morgenthau Chairman V APPEAL TO PREMIER ALEKSEI N. KOSYGIN
In the Soviet Union today, tens of thousands of Jews have applied for exit permits to reunite with the dispersed remnants of their families in Israel. With few exceptions, their "**' applications have been turned down time-and again. Several hundred of the more audacious among them, frustrated with repeated rejections, have written individual and collective open letters and appeals to you and your colleagues, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, to Secretary-General U Thant, to
Premier Golda Meir, to world public opinion.
The burden of their appeals is simple and clear: it is impossible to live with pride and dignity as Jews in the USSR. As human beings and as Jews, they seek fulfillment and family reunion in Israel, which they regard as their ancestral homeland.
Thirty-five of them have been arrested and held incommunicado, or have been tried and jailed, for their daring persistence. These Jewish political prisoners, and the hundreds of their fellows, have done nothing more than rely on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the USSR has repeatedly endorsed, and which categorically assures everyone of the "right to leave any country, including his own...." (Article 13/2").
They even rely upon you, Premier Kosygin. For you p:*X
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yourself, in response to a question on whether the USSR would allow emigration of Soviet Jews in order to be reunited with their families in Israel, said in Paris exactly four years ago
r today on December 3, 1966: <
AS REGARDS THE REUNION OF FAMILIES, SHOULD ANYONE WANT TO BE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES, OR WANT TO LEAVE THE SOVIET UNION, THE ROAD IS OPEN AND NO PROBLEM EXISTS HERE.
(Izvestiia, December 5, 1966)
We appeal to you: uphold international obligations and grant what you yourself regard as a just request. Set the prisoners free! Let those who wish go to Israel! TO : The Secretary-General
FROM : Jean Gazarian
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
DATE : 12PEC 1970 UNITED NATIONS yjjjgj NATIONS UNIES —T"^~ NEW YORK
LE 312 USSR
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The enclosed communication dated IT December 1970 is
• . transmitted to the Permaneni t Missions of the States Members of the United Nations at the1- request of the Permanent Representative -'"*" "v, of the United States 'of America to the United Nations.
) 18 December 1970 THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE UNITED NATIONS
December 17, 1970
His Excellency U Thant Secretary General United Nations, N.Y. Your Excellency: Enclosed herewith is a copy of a note dated December 17, 1970 from the United States Mission to the United Nations to the Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations, concerning an incident which occurred at the Soviet Mission on November
29, 1970. I would appreciate your having this letter, together with the attached note from the United States Mission to the United Nations,circulated as an official United Nations communication. Sincerely, December 17, 1970
The United States Mission to the United Nations presents its compliments to the Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations and has the honor to acknowledge receipt of the latter*s note number 571 of November 30, 1970 regarding an incident which occurred at the Soviet Mission on November 29, 1970. An investigation has been made and a report has been received from the Police Department of the City of Hew York. The facts provided the United States Mission are that on November 29, 1970, at 4s30 P.M., a group of eight members of the Jewish Youth World Assembly, made their way into the lobby of the Soviet Mission by mixing with a group of about 4o wives and children of Soviet staff members who were entering the Mission from a bus. At the same time, on the same Bide of the street, two buses were discharging children and their parents from the Kennedy Child Care Center on East 67th Street. The New York City Policemen stationed outside the Soviet Mission had no way of knowing that the eight intruders did not belong with the group entering the Soviet Mission, Further, the Police were not immediately informed by any staff member of the Soviet Mission, that the individuals were not legitimate visitors. As soon as the Soviet Mission requested the Police to remove the intruders they did so. The intruders were escourted out of the building to a designated picket area on the Southeast corner of 67th street and Third Avenue. WASHINGTON POST, Saturday, 26 December 1970
* In^JeTusalem, a special session of the Knes- |4'ln TelyAviv^'sejvefcar'th^; set (legislature) that she wSs isknd. school, chUdr,e;nvchS(nte,dj Israelis ap
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Rev. Samuel W. Shane, Associate Stated Clerk
510 WITHERSPOON BUILDINC, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19707 Otto K. Finkbeiner, Assistant Stated Clerk Telephone 215 PEnnypacker 5-4433 Rev. Robert F. Stevenson, Assistant Stated Clerk
The attached communication was sent today from this office to Ambassador
Ferdorovich.
It Is sent to you For Your Information and referencei THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH J *
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | K~- , ": ~-J | Rev. Samue/ W. Shane, Associate Slated Clerk c& •>.. , • • " ~ ' -i S S70 WITHERSPOON BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 79707 |. ^ j> T'.: f^Stig Otto K. Finkbeiner, Assistant Stated Clerk Telephone 275 PEnnypacker 5-4433 ^-"^P" !' '^7.^ Rev. Robert f. Stevenson, Assistant Stated Clerk IB>»
December 29, 1970 His Excellency Mr. Dobrynin A. Ferdorovich Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy of the U.S.S.R. 1125 16th Street, N.W. Washington, B.C. 20006 Your Excellency: The severity of sentences passed upon eleven defendants accused of planning to hijack a plane for the purpose of going to Israel from Leningrad has caused grave concern within the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. We are particularly dismayed at the death sentences pronounced for Mr. Mark Y. Dymshits and Mr. Eduard S. Kuznetsov. These sentences seem to us to go far beyond the severe punishment asked by the recent anti-hijacking convention endorsed by the International Civil Aviation Organization. As officers of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., we appeal to you to communicate our concern to your Government. We plead for clemency and for the commutation of the death sentences on humanitarian grounds. We urge that the religious motivation of the defendants is a mitigating circumstance of paramount consideration in world society, including the Soviet Union, which guarantees in its Constitution the free exercise of all religious beliefs. Most respectfully, The Rev. William Lavjs, Moderator and William P. Thompson, Stated Clerk of The General Assembly of The United Presbyterian Church in the U;S.A. t — I
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cc: Mr. Narasimhan Mr. Lemieux \^
30 December 1970
dear Mr. Ambassador, I acknowledge receipt of yovr letter of 28 December conveying a message to me from your Minister, the Sight Honourable 4".G. Gorton, on the subject of the Qsath sentences recently passed on two Soviet citizens of the Jewish faith, for attempted hijacking of an airplane. 1 have tafeen careful note of the contents of the message* With kind regards, Yeurs sincerely,
U fhant
His Ibceftllency Sir l/aursnefe AmbaBsador Sxtraofdlaaiy and Plenipotentiary Permanent Hepreeentaitive of Australia to the United mtions 750 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor tork, N.T* 1001? AUSTRALIAN MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
> NEW YORK X; 28th December, 1970.
Ky dear Secretary-General, The Prime Minister of Australia, the Right Honcrarable J. G. Gorton, has asked, me to convey to you the following message: "The Australian Government fully understands the concern of the Government of Israel at the circumstances in which death sentences were recently passed on two Soviet citizens of the Jewish race.
".It is alleged that an attempt was to be made to hijack an aeroplane and no-one would wish to condone such an offence. But it is disquieting that the trial itself was held in camera and was not open to observers so that irorld opinion could judge of its fairness and of the facts of the case. "It is also disquieting to note that if people of the Jewish race were permitted freely to emigrate from the Soviet Union, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations, this incident would never have occurred. "I note from press reports that the International Commission of Jurists has expressed concern over the severity of the sentences and the lack of official information re-arding the trial. There is a clear need for all the facts of the case to be established for the world to see and we hope that this will be recognised bjr the authorities of the Soviet Union and that such severe punishment of what appears to have been an attempt at escape will not proceed".
Tours sincerely,
Permanent Representative His Excellency U Thant, Secretary-General, United Nations, H3W YORK. H.Y. \fi "] » *
PERMANENT 15 EAST 7OtH STREET EPRESEN1 ATIVE OF ISRAEL. NEW YORK. N. Y. 1OO21 TO THE UNITED NATIONS
TRAFALGAR 9-3611
1 January 1971
Denr Mr. Secretary-General,
Mr. Eban has anked me to express to you the appreciation of the Gpvernrnent of Inrnel for your prompt intention to the Foreign Minister's letter of 25 December 1970 concerning the recent trial in Leningrad. y Yqfcrs sincerr, - / * .v"-*"
Shabtai Rosenne Acting Permanent Representative of Israel to tho United Nations
His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General United Nations, New York COriFIDMITI/lL
Dear 111*, Arh-'os^adoi', I oncloue 'herewith a copy oi' a .'.jonao^c1 1'ror.i Ilr. Abba than, • * • * • I-'.i!iiu :-.er for I<'Gr«l;~n Aj.'£n.avj or Israel, Jircuu^dtLuil to ;-,c by Aribcv:,GaAor Iihc.vuai Rorxsnnc, Actijs^ I'criaucy.fc licproticuiativo oi' laruHl 'oo tl>c United S&tiojte, 11 ic Muuon^o iip-;al:u for It-jeli', In i'oi^/avui;!!? thi« i.iGLiriaijtt ~oo ;."ou, 1 ^/tuit to nrJ:c it, pcrfectl^r clear tiia't It ly i'os:' 1'rcx; riy iiitciiulon to .l.ntca:r<.ii*e in tha .;..niio-..'ual tuTi'rJrs of the Union ox" Soviet iyoolulisu Ucjrablicu on LiaLtCi-.; \flv!.yi'\ arc vithiii tho coiuititut^ onal jvrxr>di.ctioh of Tj.3.J.^« i^- uo(;ivatlon in excrcisiiiij tiy liood ori'iceo in tivia ciatter la purel,/ hurjajaltnrj-on oiul I ai,t GUTQ you arc fully of ny ij'troiie conviction in 'tlia cacrediicao of lifo. I receiving; any HQoaai^o tiio Govca-nnstaxt o£ tlio U.S.t.;.!?, ni/^iiJ visli to eonjrainlcata to ?io In i-ccpo:i:;o to tJiIo lot 'Lor. .'jinco t-ha ^itlcr J.a urgent I hope that you \rlH be cood
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25 Docombor 1970
Excellency,
I am instructed by His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs to forward you the following urgent message:
"Excellency, I approach Your Excellency urgently with regard to the supreme humanitarian issue of the trial which has taken place in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., of nine Soviet Jews and two non-lews on the charge of having planned to hijack an aircraft with the purpose of reaching Israel.
As you are no doubt aware., two of the accused, both Jews, have been sentenced to death by firing-squad and heavy terms of punishment have been imposed on the others. The charges, as well as the nature and the conduct of the trial, aro offensive to elementary principles of justice and humanity. The trial was conducted behind closed doors and all efforts to have unprejudiced juridical observers attend the proceedings were thwarted.
The heavy sentences are nothing short of brutal. In the name of humanity I request your assistance in a supreme attempt to prevent, above all, the execution of these two men, Dimshitz and Kutznctsov.-/ by means of an intervention on your part, in any way and through any channel that you might consider effective.
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1 January 1971
Dear Mr.-Secretary-General,
Mr. Eban has asked me to express to you the appreciation of the Government of Israel for your prompt attention to the Foreign Minister's letter of 25 December 1970 concerning the recent trial in Leningrad.
Ycdurs sincerly,
Shabtai Rosenne Acting Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General United Nations, New York CpimCDH-TOAL 26 Doceriber 1970
Dear Mr. Ambassador, 1 enclose herewith a copy of a wessjage froa Mr. Abba Kban, Minister Tor Foreign Affairs of Israel, transciittsd to MG by Aiiibaacador Ghabtai Rosenne, Acting Pcntsancnt nopresen-fcative oi" Israel to the United Nations, ISie aoussgo opeets for itsalT. In forwardi>ig 12iis tnessc^e to you, I want to csolae it perfectly clear tiiat it is far i'roj-i my iaitontioji to interfere in iiie affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics en vMch arcs iritliin tiie constitutioaal jurisdiction of the U.S.3.R. liy motivation in exercisi«£ lay good ofi'ieeo in eiatter ie purely htsaaftitarian and I ara OUTQ you arc £10 of ray strong comriction in -fche SQcredness of lire, I would highly appreciata receiving any jaoosago thes Government of tixe U.S.S.IU isi^i-fc vish t^> ccttssaunicata to me in response to tliis letter. Silica tiie Matter is urgent I hope tliat you *»/ili be good enough to troJioHit tliis raeasace to your GovariEjent as soon as possible. With best wishes for tJie Hew Year and. hi$ieot coi5si U Secretary-General His I&ceelleney Mr, Yalcov Aleksandrov3.ch. ISellls Deputy Miniotsr for Foreign UK-fcraordiriary afid Plonijjotentiary ^r^sGntative of tlae Uiaion of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Hations 33ac* C?tli street &svr York, M.Y. 10021 bur 1970 Dear Mr. Vitli reference -bo your letter dated 25 Decor/bor iy cranawxttinfi a raesaase £ron Ilia J3scce3JLojicy tiie fUnlatt^r for Foreign Aft'sdrs of laraol^ I have promptly appa^oadied 'tJis Govonaaent of the Union of Govlct r.3ociallet Republics on the joattsr. I shall not fail to caesaunicate to you tJie result of &W action. beat wishes for tiie Now Ycai' and hi^hieat concidei*ation. U ffihant Secarerfcary-General His Escellency Mir. ChaJjta jtetbaaaEsflor Extraoi^inory cyid Acting Pcar-ianent ne^reseaitative of Israol to tha United Tlations 11 Sast TOrh Street York, I!,Y. 10021 PERMANENT Vo P.ASr 7OTH STREET REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL NF-.W YORK, N Y. 1 Of)'j 1 TO THE UNITED NATIONS 1 RAfALGAK 0-3G1 1 25 Docombor 1970 Excellency, I am instructed by His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs to forward you the following urgent message: "Excellency, I approach Your Excellency urgently with regard to the supreme humanitarian issue of the trial which has taken place in Leningrad, U. S. S. R. , of nine Soviet Jews and two non-Jews on the charge of having planned to hijack an aircraft with the purpose of reaching Israel. As you are no doubt aware., two of the accused, both Jews, have been sentenced to death by firing-squad and heavy terms of punishment have been imposed on the others. The charges, as well as the nature and the conduct of the trial, are offensive to elementary principles of justice and humanity. The trial was conducted behind closed doors and all efforts to have unprejudiced juridical observers attend the proceedings were thwarted. The heavy sentences are nothing short of brutal. In the name of humanity I request your assistance in a supreme attempt to prevent, above all, the execution of these two men, Dimshitz and Kutznetsov,-/ by means of an intervention on your part, in any way and through any channel that you might consider effective. His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General of the United Nations Since the deoth sentences nuiy be carried out within the very next few day;.: I hope (hot. you may see y.->ur vyay to take action with the utmost urgency. With be:;l wishes lor the New 7i-ni and hinli<;sl esteem. Abba Eban' Please accept, Excellency, the assurances ol my hiqhest f consideration. /*' f ;' / . t Shubtai Roscnno *"•• Acting Permanent Representative of Inrael to the United Nations UNITED N A. T IONS Press Services Office of Public Information United Nations, N.Y. (FOB USE OF INFORMATION MEDIA' — NOT AN OFFICIAL RECORD) : ' • . • NV/219 5 January 1971 The text of the following communication dated 50 December 1970 to the Secretary-General, U Thant, which, has been circulated to Member Governments as a note yerbale. is reproduced below for the information of correspondents: Translated from Russian DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS 30 December 1970 Sir, ' I have the honour to send you a copy of a note from the Permanent Mission of thfc USSR to the United Nations addressed to the United States Mission to the United Nations concerning yet another instance of hostile acts against the USSR Mission to the United Nations committed by hooligan elements : of the United States Zionist organization lunown as the "Jewish Defense League", I should be grateful if you would circulate this note as a United Nations document and arrange for this question to be considered at a 'meeting of the United Nations Joint Committee on Host Country Relations. (Signed) Y.A. MALIK The Permanent Mission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations has the honour to bring the following facts to the attention of the United States Mission to the United Nations: (more) -.2.- W/219 5 January 1971 For two days — 27 and 28 December —.hooligan elements of the Zionist organization describing itself as the "Jewish Defense League" maintained a night- and-day display of outrageous behaviour near the building of the USSR Mission, having for this purpose installed themselves on the balcony of a synagogue facing the Mission building. These fascist-type elements of the above-mentioned Zionist organisation kept up a continuous cry of racist slogans of hatred and swore loudly in Bussian and English for all to hear, using words which are inadmissible for any self-respecting and civilized person. They also engaged in insulting and violent behaviour against the staff of the Mission and members of their families, and against Soviet staff members of the United Nations Secretariat, and foreign nationals who visited the Mission on those days. One of the hooligans behaved in an insulting manner towards the wife of a member of the staff of the Mission. All this took place in the presence of a police squad. Yet the policemen turned aside, pretending not to notice the intolerably violent and hooligan-like action of this unrestrained Zionist thug. Near the Mission building, at the corner of 66th Street and Lexington Avenue, six Zionists of the above-mentioned "League" tried to attack two Attache's of the Mission, Mr. V.P, Gladky and Mir, G,V, Mikheev, It was only thanks to a policeman standing nearby, to whom these Soviet diplomats appealed for help, that an assault on them by the Zionist hooligans was averted. On 28 December, at 9>55 P-.DU, Zionist hooligans standing on the balcony of the above-mentioned synagogue, began to throw bottles filled with paint at the Mission building. As a result of these hostile acts two windows, on the third and fourth floors of .the Mission, were shattered and the outside walls were spattered with paint. One of the bottles crashed into a room in which there were a sleeping child and his father — a diplomat and a member of the staff of the Mission, The father was hit by the bottle and seriously injured, and the child was awakened by the noise of the breaking glass and suffered a nervous shock due to fright. Both the child and his.father will require protracted treatment. The second bottle .thrown at a window fell into another room, broke and spattered paint on the floor, walls, furniture, carpet and all other articles in the room, causing substantial material damage. (more) - 3 - JJV/2L9 5 January 1971 In bringing all the above-mentioned hostile acts of the Zionist hooligans to the attention of the United States Mission, the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations lodges a severe protest and demands that the United States Mission and the United States authorities should take immediate steps to put an end to hostile acts of this kind by Zionist elements, to prevent any such acts in future and to bring to trial and punish the persons who committed the aforementioned acts of violences which the Permanent Mission of the USSR immediately reported to the police. The 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department was sent the unbroken bottle which had crashed through a Mission window and fragments of the other bottle with the remains of the paint it had contained. The Permanent Mission of the USS3 to the United Nations reserves the right under the laws of the host country (i.e., United States law), to institute criminal proceedings against the leaders of the above-mentioned "League" and also against the individuals who perpetrated these criminal acts, and to bring a suit for physical damage and moral injury sustained. In this connexion the Permanent Mission of the USSR would request the United States Mission to ascertain the identity of the perpetrators of these criminal acts and to transmit their names to the Permanent Mission for the purpose of bringing suit* A copy of this note has been sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for consideration at a meeting of the United Nations Joint Committee on Host Country Relations. New York, 30 December 1970 # ### SG/«em MD 15 Jasuaiy 1971 Ifear 2 tlaaak you for your kia& letter of 12 January* X am eitelQSJxig herewith a copy of Ambassador Kosenae's lettar addressed, to rae on 1 dFasmary. For obvious reasons, this letter is sent for yotir personal infonaation only, you -afill understand tlie reason -wiiy. my feest ^ishefi, Yours sincez^ly, II BabM Gilbert Klaperzaan Coagregatioa Betb Sholom Broadway at Washington Aventte Ifew PERMANENT 15 EAST 70TH STREET REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL NEW YORK. N. Y. 1OO21 TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRAFALGAR 9-3611 1 January 1971 Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. Eban has asked me to express to you the appreciation of the Government of Israel for your prompt attention to the Foreign Minister's letter of 25 December 1970 concerning the recent trial in Leningrad. Yofirs sincer/ly, Shabtai Rosenne Acting Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General United Nations, New York CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM BROADWAY AT WASHINGTON AVE. LAWRENCE. L. I. DR. GILBERT KLAPERMAN, RABBI January 12,1971 Hon. U. Thant, Secretary General United Nations New York, N.Y. Your Excellency: You may recall that I had the honor of meeting with you, in my capacity as President of The New York Board of Rabbis, at a luncneon sponsored in honor of the Astronauts at Lincoln Center by the City o± New York. I presume upon that chance encounter, and as a man of faith to congratulate you upon a report in the New York Times that on January 7,1971, you intervened on benalf of six persons who were condemned to death for plotting to overthrow the Cameroon government. Indeed "all human lives are sacred". Your Excellency is undoubtedly aware of the agony we experienced during the recent Leningrad trials when two Jews were condemned to death on a far lesser charge. I respectfully ask why at that time there was no similar report of your personal or official intervention, It is,of course, conceivable that such action was not published in the press. Wxth my personal regards and best wishes. Sincerely yours, Rar>b GK/sj ^•^rt-r- -•7 ~' Vv'-',g.js- - •Y;/-i.U.J.r'lOiAl-L' y l 'JANI2'7I }•/•••: '$ \ /•"-,<•''A. ^ -n c • i ^S-iTiiJJi' •""•>' 0 • Hon. U. Thant, Secrerary General United Nations New York, N.Y. RABBI GILBERT KLAPERMAN CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM LAWRENCE. N. Y. NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, g2 January 1971 Right to By MORRIS B. ABRAM state of minorities, proclaimed by its leaders "as the perfect society. If any- The recent vengeful trial" of Jews Soviet IJmon Defies one chooses to leave, this is a blot on attempting to., leave. Leningrad, the the claim and a bad example to Soviet brutal beating and recapture, of the Basic Human Right minorities, many of whom have com- Lithuanian iseaman seeking asylum on patriots outside the borders." an .American Coast Guard vessel, the Adopted by the U.N. I asked his opinion as to how many expressed fear or'Solzhenitsyn that if people would actually leave the Soviet he 'accepted' V Nobel:.prize' in Stock- Union if the doors were opened. "Not holm, he., would be; .'barred forever years later in the Proclamation of .many," he replied, "and many who from, his Russian, homeland—all these Teheran that declared, "The Universal would leave would return if there events say something sad and signifi- Declaration of Human Rights states were no stigma or impediments on cant about.lhe, Soyiet,-Unipn fifty years the common understanding" of the leaving or reprisals on returning." after the Revolution..:. . 7 peoples of the world concerning the He drew from the recent history of .inalienable and inviolable rights of his own country, which had opened The Soviet Government is afraid to all members of the'.human, family and : honor a.,basic and internationally rec- its doors after World War II. "Many constitutes an obligation for the mem- left—several hundreds of thousands, . ognized human >righti .the ,$ght. of bers of the international community." -• -everyone, -to ieave.,. any•. country and:.; but soon, I myself processed the visas to. return' to his .own country.. in ,1963,, the United Nations Sub- for a great flow of return." Then he : -The. principle is. derived from, natural conunissiori for tiie Prevention of Dis- said: "Where the gates swing freely law, was -regarded, by Socrates as; an crimination and Protection of Minori- both ways, the flow soon establishes ; ties considered a' .study .of discrimina- attribute to personal liberty'j,4s, upheld 1 an equilibrium." in Grotius'a treatise on International-• tipn;pn the right of everyone to leave ;The Soviet Union, however, has , Law. and, wag, guaranteed. to English- any. country,, including his own, and been totally .obstinate while hypo- . .inen in the Magna Caria. 'Socrates, in, : to return to his own, prepared by the critically contending that it has open '• his dialpgue .with Critoj stated the law Philippine jurist, Jose D. Ingles. Judge doors. Only in the heat of debate i of Athens- and! tihe reason:'.."... . . we Ingles proposed very explicit draft when their guards are down do Soviet .further."proclaim;.to,,any Athenian by principles based on Article 13. The So^ -delegates tell the sad truth about the , the • liberty, which we allow, horn, that viet bloQ opposed, its publication, de- right to leave Russia and most Soviet- if he: does'not like us .when he has manded-the deletion of material from bloc countries today, for that matter. become of age.and ihas seen the ways,. .authoritative sources giving instances The International Convention on the of the city, and made our acquaintance, of denials b'y Soviet-bloc nations of Elimination of all Forms of Racial -he may go where he-pleases and take the right to leave the bloc countries," Discrimination, ratified by 46 nations, his goods witfc him." '• ... ; and voted against the draft principles. including the U.S.S.R. and the Ukraine, The. Soviet, representatives contended is now in force. Included among the During my five "years of service in at. the same time that everyone was rights enumerated is "the right of the .United 'Nations, my Soviet col- •free to leave even' the Soviet Union. everyone to leave any country, includ- leagues were consistently hypersensi- The Soviet Union is a great and ing his own, and to return to his owp tive to any discussion of the right to . powerful country, the bulk of whose country." leave one's- country;.i.knew,:of course, citizens are as attached to that land The cruel fact, however, is that the that the Soviet Union had fought a .as are. citizens of other nations. There- Soviet Union, for all of dts successes •.last ditch ffght..against Article 13, fore, the Soviet unreasoning and un- and achievements, is still in some finally proposing and losing an amend- justified fear of free exit perplexed me. ways a frightened, primitive nation, ment, to make the right conditional, One day at lunch with a man from not anything like as advanced as the ;"in' "accordance with the procedure ' one of the Soviet-bloc nations, I raised Athens of Socrates. laid down in the laws of that, country.". this question'. Eventually, the' Soviet Union ab- He acknowledged the Soviet fear Morris B. Abram, former president of stained in the General Assembly vote. and the shackles it had imposed on Brandeis . University, served as U.S. However,, the force of the declaration exits. Representative, on fhe.,..U.N.: Human was affirmed unanimously twenty He explained: "The U.S.S.R. is a Rightsr ComfMssionf' ' % ; .^ ?#'• ':'$ ^••^.•:IVv**i4-.':i-'.*iLL?--i«.:-^.-^,'i.^i. . How has the phoenix of Jewish con- Petition and Dissent sciousness risen from the ashes of a burnt out Jewish culture and institu- Are Heard at the U;N. tion? The petitions from Moscow throw .light on the question. First, there is : And Around the World the negative factor of anti-Semitism. Personal or group experience with :. overt forms of bigotry, especially the By WILLIAM KOREY anti-Zionist press campaign, with its stereotypic features of the perfidious. • .It was" only a haW-decade ago that international Jew, is resented as an ', Elie Wiesel referred to Soviet Jewry as assault upon the dignity of the Jew. j the "Jews of silence" who spoke only with their eyes. How distant does this Second is the very absence of Jew- characterization now seem. The Sim- ish institutions. Contrasting their sit- • chat Torah demonstration in front of uation with that of the many other the main synagogue in Moscow has nationalities inhabiting the Soviet state, been an annual affair with thousands the Moscow petitioner says, "I am a of youngsters singing and dancing to Jew, I was born a Jew, and I want to ' Yiddish and Hebrew songs. A specifi- live out my life as a Jew" (as one . cally Jewish samizdat, -manuscripts of wrote). The result of the deprivation, Jewish interest, poetry and tapes of ironically, is a burgeoning sense of .Yiddish and Hebrew songs, circulates pride in that which they know exists •.widely in underground fashion.. elsewhere in the world but which they But the most striking manifestation lack—Jewish institutions, Jewish lan- of the new ferment among a segment guages, Jewish educational and cultural • of .Soviet Jewry, is ,the literally -scores establishments. of petitions which they write and sign, Were the key refrain of their peti- whether as individuals or in groups tions to be placed in an American 1 numbering as many as eighty or nine- context it would read "Jewish is beau- ty. Asking for the -right to emigrate tiful." They speak of the achieve- to Israel, the petitioners boldly list ments of Jews in history, of their their names and addresses, and some- heroism and cultural contributions, of times even their ages and occupations their martyrology, of unity of the as well. The limited evidence suggests Jewish people, of love of Israel. .::that the signers, are largely in the tional legal sources, the petitioners of Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Kulashi), Riga To a far lesser extent, the petitions . 20r40 age bracket ;and that their skills have not neglected to note that Premier (34 per cent) and Moscow (26 per cent). speak of deprivations with respect to -., in .the .scientific: and humanities fields Aleksei Kosygin, at a press conference Georgian Jews hold to a profound Judaism as a motivation for their • are fairly, broad. . • . , on Dec. 3, 1966, promised that "the. traditional lore, transmitted from fa- pride. A final motif of the signers is Between February 1.968, • when the door is open" and "no problem exists" ther through son, which traces their the desire to be reunited with rela- •_• first.petition..arrived:in the West, and for Soviet Jews wishing "to leave the ancestry to the Ten Lost Tribes of tives in Israel. October 1970,..a total of ^220 appeals Soviet Union" to join relatives in ancient Israel. And Riga, before its The many hundreds of signers, it have appeared. Three-quarters of theim Israel. incorporation into the Soviet state, must be emphasized, constitute but a . are. forwarded to U.N. bodies or to The geographical areas from .whence in 1940; was characterized by an elab- tiny minority of the Soviet Jewish .. prominent. personalities ranging from the. petitions come are suggestive of orate infrastructure of Jewish Secular- population. Yet, it is clear that they President Richard Nixon' and. Premier their widespread character: Moscow communal institutions. The great puz- are the tip of^ an iceberg, the size of . polda Meir to British Communist party • .Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Vilna, zle is, of course, Moscow where which nobody'really knows. There are chief, John GoIIan. Of. the one-quarter Tbilisi and even far-off Novosibirsk- pressures toward assimilation had al- many Soviet Jews who, if not part of that are addressed to..Soviet officials, are only some of the listed localities. ways been great and where a once the Soviet Establishment, have made 'copies are deliberately leaked abroad. But most arrived from three areas flourishing Jewish culture (until 1948) their adjustment to it. But what the The strategy of the Jewish militants Georgia (10 per cent, mainly the cities is now virtually extinct. masses of Jews of "Middle Russia" ,is clear: world public opinion .must be think remains an unknown factor. If somehow sensitized to their plight. their options have narrowed, silence The method .of the dissenting Soviet is increasingly unacceptable as a means intellectuals was no doubt the model. of survival. The danger to the regime "That small but hardy band of non- ^ "Now', fifty years later [after the Revolution], is that they may be infected by the conformist democrats have been apply- we've got to stop looking for a defector in everyone. militancy of the petitioners. It is .no ing'.this strategy since the Sinyavsky- doubt this concern that has led the . Daijiel trial'of early 1966. During In- We've got to stop designing our border policy for the authorities to arrest Jews in a half- ternational Human Rights Year in 1968, sake of keeping the dregs and scum inside our country. dozen cities on the basis of an alleged they made the Universal Declaration hijacking, to search scores of Jewish of .Human Rights, rather than the So- We must start thinking about the people who don't homes, confiscating materials of a spe- viet 'Constitution, their standard, and deserve to be called scum—people who might undergo a cifically Jewish character—like He- thfe liN. Commission on Human Rights brew grammars and Jewish histories— the target of their appeal. temporary vacillation in their own convictions, or who and to conduct show trials. •Soviet'Jewish petitioners, too, are might want to try out the capitalist hell, some aspects Howsoever intense the intimidation using international standards. They of which may still appear attractive to our less stable might be, the determination of the frequently cite the Article 13/2 of the young Soviet Maccabees to-overcome Universal Declaration of Human Rights elements. We can't keep fencing these people in. We've .and prevail will not be stifled. Their and Part I; .Article 5 of the'Interna- petitions make that clear. tional Convention on the Elimination got to give them a chance to find out for themselves .. of ..Racial p.iscrimihatibri, bo;th of which what the world is like." • : ;. .. : Wi!!iam Korey is director of the B'nai —Nikita Khrushchev in :"Kirushch-ey^Remembers " B'ritK United Nations office and author , : *" " • • •;';^;:-|f^^lfl%l|L|^^^':'t'^.; v;. : of "The Legal Position of the Soviet ; Jewish Community." NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, 22 January 1971 r- - —-> A Soviet View By SPARTAK BEGLOV Tel Aviv, Moscow observers -ihe Leningrad -trial af a. group MOSCOW—Soviet pu'blib opinion is noted Kahane's recent boast •;:kf|hijackers, reports appeared in the quite naturally disturbed by; the ter- of his main goals is to "proyokfe^a ^yfesitern press, .attempting .to depict rorist acts perpetrated against Soviet crisis in Soviet American relations?' ; ; the trial1" as:'a manifestation of "anti- institutions and their personnel in the The question is: Is this what the Semitism," even though some- of the United States by the Zionist Jewish broad American public really wants? . defendants were not Jewish. This was Defense League. It cannot help but : Does it really want the relations be- : a gross distortion of the truth. Hijack- wonder-about the implications/of this tween the world's two greatest pow- ing is considered a crime in any coun- campaign for American-Soviet rela- ers, on which world peace depends, try. tions and the cause of international disturbed and- poisoned by a handful As for the question of Jewish emi- peace. of Zionist fanatics", whose loyalties lie gration to Israel, about which so much Nor can it avoid :the. conclusion not in the United States but in Israel? fuss is made in the Western press, that the Jewish Defense League and Are American streets arid communi- the facts are also clear—that is, if its f ueihrer; Meir JCaharie draw their cations media to be used as instru- one chooses to look at them without inspiration and "support from ' Israel. ments for the (preachment of a brand the distorting lenses of anti-Soviet The Soviet public is aware of the of neo-racism which is willing to sac- prejudice. There are some Jews—rela- connections Ijetween the leaders of rifice "normal American--S6viet rela- tively few in number—who wish to the league and extremist Zionist' tions and, indeed, world peace, for go to Israel, usually for religious groups in 'Israel; It cannot ignore .the the attainment of its own narrow, reasons or because of ties of blood. very warm welcome -which Kahane1 bigoted goals? This is the real ques- The Soviet authorities • consider such tion. receive_d^ldurmg~his' recent visit to .1 applications according to the usual norms. Thousands of Jews have, in- The ^Kahanes 'have tried to make deed, gone to Israel. tije question appear to be one of > But the troubado-rs of aggressive tii& rights of1 Jews. That is\not tne Zionism are not content with this. () Since Jews from the. United States, question at all. It is Kahane and his Britain and other Western countries ilk who would violate the rights of do not wish to go to Israel, Tel Aviv people of Jewish origin. With a racist and its agents seek' by hook. or crook arrogance equaled only by Hitler's, to find a source ;6f. labor and Icannon they claim, for 'Israel the bodies and fodder for Israel among the Jews of souls of .all Jews, whether in the So- the: Sbviet ,-Uhiob: .That :isi-one of the viet UnionV or the United States', major-reasons for the current .hulla- whether religious or not. The .fuehrers, baloo^ for the hooligan .tactics of the the storm-troopers, the high priests so-called Jewish Defense, League. of this neo-racist crusade do not hesi- Overwhelmingly the Jews of the So- tate to violate either, international law viet Union reject and condemn this or the rights of other countries in synthetic campaign. . pursuit of their fanatical aims. They The overriding issue, however, is, have annexed the territories of their as I suggested,'much broader than the .neighbors in the Middle East since Jewish question. To repeat: Will Amer- 1947; they have bombed and vandal- ican-Soviet relations, complicated as ized diplomatic missions and agencies they are, be further complicated, will < of the Soviet Union; they fliave inter- the slow march to world peace be "" further hampered, because of the ac- ir/.4 fin^thafdoinestlc life, of other tivists of: a small band of Zionist h. countries? " ! -« ' ^ . >, 1 < .fanatics? .... ,.- ...... •- " . . ^- Strong-words? Perhaps. But moder- r ate considering the threat to interna- tional relations posed "by this small Spartak .Begfev is - the political ob-. band of Zionist fanatics. server 'of the Novosti Press Agency In my own country, the .Soviet.; ' "' ' '' '" Union, the vast majority of J^ws re- •. ject the pretenses of Zionism arid cbn- sider themselves Soviet citizens, like their Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Uzbek brothers. The aims and ambi- tions of Tel Aviv are alien to them. They shed their blood in the 1917 revolution to overthrow the Czanst f yoke, to end pogroms, to bnng equal rights to the oppressed nationalities of feudal-capitalist Russia. They did their part in building the new Social- ist society. They sliare ther fruits of this historic^ victory, J and have the "^lEs^bvie't"; peoples," iSlfe Soyifet,icon~ ^"Ige^ryday^- MS/Jb/vb KJ, Vr-, Le 25 oal 1971 FTOSOTOSLLB Monsieur 10 President , J»ai bleu re§u vofcre lettre du 26 avril 1971 «le puis vous assuror de tout mtm int^ret pour le eas stir lequel vous attires &scn attention. Veailles egreor, Monsieur la President, les assurances da.isa trSs.hautt consideration, - • ' UThsnt Monsieur Gsorg@s Arenatein President die la Idguo beige pour la defense dea droita da 1'hommo 1, Aveuae de la Tolsoa d'Or Brux©Ues 6, Bslgiquo translation from French Personal >5 May 1971 r>ir, 1 acknowlerip0 receipt of your letter dated .°6 April 1971 and have taken noto of its contents. I can assure you cf all my interest in the case which you have brourht to ny attnntion. Accept, Gir, the assurances of my hirhost consideration U Thant Mr. Gfjor.fres Aronstein, President RRl°;i?.n Lea pun for the Defence of the- Riphts of Kan 1 Ave. de la Toison d'Or Brussels 6, Belgium Unofficial translation from French Personal TO : U Thant Secretary-General ' United Nations New York FROM : G. Aronstein, President Belgian League for the Defence of the Rights of Man DATE : 26 April 1971 Sir, As President of the Belgian League for the Defence of the Rights of Man I wish to draw your attention to the following case: Mr. Joseph Davidovitch Katz, 60 years old, resident at IMTA, 3A Zavodskaia St., apartment It, Komi A.S.S.R., U.S.S.R., has been trying for several years to pay a visit to Western Europe as a tourist in order to see his sisters and his fairily, that is Mrs. Deborah Katz-Larsen, 59 Melezes St., 1050 Brussels, Delgium, and Mrs. I. Katz-Scholder, 11 Forestiere St., 1050 Brussels, Belgium. These ladies are'prepared to grant him board and lodging as well as the necessary money during a stay of 2 or 3 months in Brussels. Although Mr. Katz lives comfortably his sisters have recently sent him /i.OO rubles in order to allow him to pay the fee for delivery of his passport. Kr. Katz gives his solemn oath to return later to the U.S.S.R. either on the day fixed by the Belgian Government or the day fixed by the Soviet .Government. The several requests for a passport made by Mr. Katz to the local authorities of INTA unfortunately have yielded no positive result. Although he has been able several times to receive the visit of his sisters, he fervently desires to know the other members of his family, especially his nephews, and wishes personally to see how they live. Under the circumstances, Mr. Secretary-General, I wish to appeal to your kindness so that you, on a humanitarian basis, would draw the attention of the Soviet Government to Mr. Katz1 case which, on the basis of my information, should not give rise to difficulties. T would be most /rrateful for any action you mipht undertake for the purpose of having- a visa issued to Mr. Katz. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. L^fewffl.'-Wtr-.-l''-'**--!'1' L.IGU E BELGE POUR LA DEFENSE DES DROITS DE l_§ H O M M E ETA13LISSEM EM T D'I.I 7'I LITE PUBLIOUH Bruxelles, le 26 avrll 1971 ANC I E N PRESIDE NT r PEftSONIJELLL! H. U. BOTSON rnir . M'p U .*. J Li L4 4 1 ANCIENS Secretaire General des Nations-Unies VICE-PRESIDENTS : M . GOTTSCHAUK NEV-YOiiK j . E . V A *N O E R V e i_ O £ Etats-Unis * ** w iuur lo Socre taire PRESIDENT : O ••• ! J r. < r-: .--j T ti { M En :na iiualitu de Proslueiit J<^ la Li^uo l.)0lge pour la jJoJ'eiise ties Jroits de 1'Iioiamc, VICE-RRESIDENTS je me pen. lots <.! ' a t tirer votro attention sur le cas suivaut C. i-'I O I-1 R fc ** U.X « sc: 1-1 c YVEM Joseph Uavidovitch Iwv.T/, age de soixaute u -^ 7 TM.) V £' ^ >.• r.- R !>•* F v i_ j-i fs ans, domourant a INTA, rue iJavodskaia, 3A} appart'^ment V'-iii -*f U.ll.SoS., ciiorciie depuis plusieurs aunues a se rt:n *• w t.' I. r } f j r-. i-uidainc I« KATZ~301IOLuE/l, deneirant a ijri4xelleo-])olgi(jue , 11 , rue Foreatiure. TRESORIER : (Jey dairies sont diy;)OKeoa a Ini dn:.uer le ^ito et le couvct't ninni ijue I'argcjat necesuai)''- jioud.'Jit 1111 sujou,.' cle cloux o'i troLs uiois a Uruxolles. PRESIDENTS 1 COM M I SS IONS iiioji 4110 I ijitijr«;sse soit titulairc d'une situation aisee, ellc-fs lui on t i'.iit parveuir r6ceiii:ient ({uatre cents Iioul.)les pour lui pcruettre tie payer la taxe a la delivraiice de patjyeport. uonsiciir Josepli D. iuil1^ s'eiiira;;e de la hiariiere la plus i'oriiK-sl lo a rentrer en U0H.3.S. au plus tard soit a la date fixee j)ar le Gouvcruetaejit l.ieige, soit a celle fixee par lu ijoaverncuen I sovietii[ue. TEU. 11.6O.88 SIESE : 1, AVENUE DE 1_A TOISON D'OR - BRUXEULES 6 C.C.P. 73SS.61 Les diverses dei.iandes de passeport introduites par i-,i. 1CAT/ auprea des antoritea locales d'INTA n'ont tnalheureu- sens cut pas doune de resultat Par contre 11 a pu, a plu- sicnrs reprises, rocovoir la visite de ses soeurs» kais il aitaerait ardemiiient coniiaitre les autres isiembros de sa fa- mill e et notaiJLi.icnt ses neveux et pouvoir lui-weuie observer leur environnenient. Dans ces conditions je me pennets, Monsieur le Se- cretaire (lenural, de fairo appel a votre bienveillance .Miur quo vous attirio/,, sur le plan humanitaire, 1'attention du Gouveniement sovietique sur ie cas de 1.1. Katz lequel, sur la base des rensei^neiriCnts en ma pcEBeasion, ne doit domier lieu a difficultes, \K-^ Je vous suis des a present tres oblige pour I1action que vous voudrez bien entrepren- dro afin qu'un visa soit d<;livre a M. Katz et j e vous prie d'a^rocr, Monsieur le Secretaire General, lea assurances de ma liuiite consideration, G. as Sear I¥ New Yorli, If.t, 1C016 i /" U- Secretary-General U Thant United Nations PERSONAL & New York, N. Y. 10017 CONFIDENTIAL \A-*-t_«^U-^ ^~ C-&Aj: ^o Community Council of Jewish Organizations COMMITTEE ON SOVIET JEWRY SUITE 2011 • 176 W. ADAMS ST. • CHICAGO, ILL. 60603 PHONE (312) 372-0026 May 5, 1971 Honorable U Thant Secretary General United Nations c/o Palmer House Hotel Chicago, Illinois Dear Mr. Secretary General: The Jewish community of Chicago is aware of your contributions in support of the right of Jews who desire to leave the Soviet Union to do so. In recognition of your efforts, we are delivering with this letter a token of our appreciation. We urge you to remain steadfast in defense of the right of Soviet Jews, and all other persons who desire to leave the country where they live, to emigrate as guaranteed by Article XIII of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is expected that the Soviet government will soon place on trial a number of Jews who have been in prison since June 15 of last year. Since the only known "offense" committed by these prisoners is their desire to leave the Soviet Union, we hope that you will speak up in their behalf, so that they can be allowed to leave the Soviet Union rather than waste years of their lives in Siberia. We will continue to support your efforts to secure peace and justice throughout the world. Sincerely, Paul Hurwitz, M.D President PH/fs Hand Delivery Community Cojjndl of Jewish Organizations COMMITTEE ON SOVIET JEWRY Suite 2011 176 West Adams Street Chicago, Illinois 60603 HAND DELIVERY Honorable U Thant Secretary General United Nations c/o Plainer House Hotel Chicago, Illinois TO : The Secretary-General FROM : Jean Gazarian FOR YOUR INFORMATION DATE : 2 3 JUN 1971 Jf ^ UNITED NATIONS ||K|? NATIONS UNIES *^^^** NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS—ADftCMK TBLBQKAPHlQURt UNATIONt NRWYORK REFERENCE"; PO 210 The enclosed translation of a communication dated 10 June 1971 ,. is transmitted to the Permanent Missions of the States Members of the United Nations at the request of the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations. Ill- June 1971 Translated from Russian DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGH AFFAIRS PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED SATIOIS Ho. 256 10 June 1971 Sir, As is veil known, Zionist circles in the United States of America and a number of other countries have been carrying on & malicious and slanderous anti-Soviet campaign in connexion with the so-called "Jewish question" in the USSR,, deliberately fabricated by them. The fundamental purpose of this hostile campaign is to divert the attention of the United Rations and -world public opinion fro® the aggressive expansionist policy of Israel, which, in violation of resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the principle, endorsed by the United nations, of the inadmissibility of the seizure of alien territories, is continuing to occupy Arab lands and to undermine efforts to achieve a peaceful political settlement of the Middle East conflict. One of the forms which this anti-Soviet campaign takes is the organization by Zionist centres of the dispatch to various institutions, including the United Nations, of letters deliberately fabricated in advance by them and containing so-called "protests". The Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations has in its possession a number of documents clearly indicating hot? this anti-Soviet campaign is organised and directed by enemies of the USSR. His Excellency U Thant Secretary-General of the United Nations Nev York -2- I am sending you herewith a copy of one of these documents, & Zionist instruction consisting of an appeal to the recipient to send such "letters" and fire different models for the "letters" in question, composed Toy the Zionist centres. I should be grateful if you vould hare this letter of mine and the enclosure circulated to the missions of the States Members of the United Nations so that they may be informed of the methods used by the Zionists in carrying on their hostile and provocative activities. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. (Signed) 7. MALIK Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United fations The members and friends of Congregation Beth Sholom are undertaking a letter writing campaign to the Soviet Government in behalf of Soviet Jewry. It is a fact that the Soviet Government has, in the past, reacted to public opinion. Letter writing can be an effective instrument in the application of political pressure. We are asking that you write one letter a week for the next month to: His Excellency, Yakov A. Malik His Excellency Ambassador 136 East 67th Street Anatoly F. Dobrynin New York, N. Y. 10021 U.S.S.R. Embassy Washington, D. C. Do not send post cards or wires.. Sealed letters have to be opened, read, translated, tabulated, recorded, reported. Once in a while, an answer is received. We confine our appeal to the one right of emigration. Please note that we do not mention Israel. Letter writers should never mention personal relatives — we have three million relatives there. There can be no excuse for silence on the part of American Jews when the lives of Russian Jews are in jeopardy. And we can never consider these Jews lost while we have the moral strength and ability to redeem them. Please spread the word. Contact your family, friends, neighbors and organizations. It will take effort to reach a really massive mail, so formidable that the Soviets will not be able to ignore. Sample letters are given below. Dear Sir: Jews who wish to leave Soviet lands are not enemies of the U.S.S.R. Please persuade your government to allow those Jews who wish to leave for religious or other reasons to do so. ,.-... Respectfully yours, Please forward to your government my plea to allow Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Thank you. Respectfully yours, Please do not detain those Jews who want to emigrate for religious or other personal reasons. Respectfully yours, I am deeply distressed about the ban on emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union. Removing this restriction would be just and humane. Respectfully yours, The United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights provides the right to emigration to all peoples. Please allow those Jews who wish to emigrate to do so. Thank you. Begin your letter today! Let us show the Soviet Government that we are as one with our Soviet brothers. L Thank you. ^- 15 June 1971 PEBSOHfiL Bear Mr. Wexler > 1 vish, to acknowledge your letter of 10 June 1971 regarding the case of Mrs. Sara Rudetein-Kowaleweka^a of Bat Yam, Israel, aa8 requesting ray assistance in facilitating the emigration of her only eon, Ilia Hudstein of Moscow and Me family to Israel. As you knot?* these matters are both difficult end delicate, but I shall So nay beet to help. Ifoure sincerely, Thant Mr, William A. Waxier Co-Chairman Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations 1640 Bhode Island Avenue, Uorthwesfc Washington, D.C, cc: Mr. Lemieux Mr. Harasinihan Mr. Muller COORDINATING BOARD OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest Washington, D. C. 20036 [202] 393-5284 June 10, 1971 CO-CHAIRMEN WILLIAM A. WEXLER B'nai B'rith MICHAEL FIDLER Board of Deputiet ofBritithJewi DR. T. SCHNEIDER South African Jewiih Board ofDeputie* Secretary-General U Thant SECRETARIES United Nations RABBI JAY KAUFMAN United State* New York, N. Y. 10017 ABRAHAM J. MARKS United Kingdom Dear Mr. Secretary-General: Personal Gvs SARON South Africa Director Rarely do I call upon you for assistance, but 9 a thing ton Office if I do now it is because the matter is of particular HERMAN EDELSBEBG JVeic fork Office concern to me. I ask the kindness of your intervention WILLIAM A. KOREY in the case of Mrs. Sarah Rudstein-Kowalewskaja of Bat Yam, Geneva Office 1 GUSTAV WARBURG Israel. Mrs. Rudstein-Kowalewskaja s husband died suddenly three months ago and left her an invalid, alone and unable to care for herself. Her request, as you can see from the copy I enclose, is moving yet simple. She asks permission for her only son, Ilia Rudstein of Moscow, his wife and daughter to join her in'her old age under the humanitarian principle, recognized by the Soviet Union, of the reunification of families. Mr. Rudstein has applied for an exit visa to rejoin his mother. Anything you can do to facilitate the reunion of these people in Israel will earn my deepest personal gratitude, as you have already won my admiration and respect. Sincerely, William A. Wexler Co-Chairman Enc, ;.*" daughter of Joseph, 61, I'anessiim Htr. 13*tfl S"/ua, Israel PETITION I, the undersigned Sarah TtfiK,'"EiJ| - KCWA•-K'sRKAJA, daughter of Joseph, am applying hereby to tho competent authorities of the Soviet Union with the great and resjectful request, kindly to agree that the following persons; - my only son RUB/'KU ILIA, non of kordcchai, born 1937, - his wife PrSrKIS K.AIA, daughter of Jakob, born 1957, - their daughter, Hu'D-TKEN ALIA, daughter of Ilia, born 1962„ all of them residents of the Soviet Union, living in the city of MOSCOW, J - 278, KonstRntinow street 22, flat No. 41, to come to Israel as permanent residents. We have been afflicted by a terrible blow of fate. My husband, father Of our son Ilia, died here suddenly and I remained alone at all without any relatives. I am a very ill woman, suffering of heavy ailingsp struck a short time ago from a heart-infarct and needy of permanent care and help. Thiy son is the only one I have und he is tho only child who regained in my life. As a sequel of the calamity mentioned above, I am completely broken and I need my ;;on near mee I ask you from the bottom of my heart, kindly to grant my uon, his v&fe and their daughter tLe permission to emigrate to me in order to re-unite the family. The presence of iny son would .-iouthe my grJefo I m. living in a flat biff enough to house them all, having thus the possi- bility to shelter my children. I 3o hope that the Soviet Authorities, true to their humanitarian ..rinciples of th© re-unification of separated fronilieo will give a positive response to my request, allomng my children to join me for a permanent stay in 'israel* Signature •^•i^-'' 1?- .- M?.v' :S Oappa fer:v&•'*>:?'!.•:..,' £•;•••-•• f.v '..'•• -I ?v- - •: :• ?:.•_!••. ---r- ^T '-•'- - • r ^' •--» -' f- ' ' B U . B 0 B H, HHasenoflraicanssjiosj P RpaaiaKCh K eooTi-neTCT opranan B •**• a^, poA." s'--1957 r.? ero 4ViE!ifl$C 13 1937 r., TB PCCCP a Hao nocTttmo rcpo« Kofi KVK - era H . H 6ojibHoii? nepsnecsa .IIK y MOHJI To.iijxo 3Toi> o. — ©TO y EHOHH. fl yOnTa ropon K p B-M08M CHHO. OT Bcero wee My- CKI^-C l: ^•.?•'*-. . . . | + v - ' •"?- -- •' fl pacnoaarft» K"o«?p7HroS 'K BMOS) '•":'K-'' J, K c©6eB «ITO »jt£ic7ss CorsBTC.'cOro Coiosa paapcsnc.u'KiJX c-:?j-*e;'i, c irpoobSe H paspeaa? MOHM ' ^OTHT-I BKc:ai7& KO 'Mae &a "..fi 164O RHODE ISLAND AVE., N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 2OO36 Secretary-General U Thant United Nations PERSONAL New York, N. Y. 10017 TO : The Secretary-General FROM : Jean Gazarian FOR YOUR INFORMATION UNITED NATIONS Wm$ NATIONS UNIES NEW YORK CA1L* ADDR««»—ADR«» TIHORAPHIOUIi UNATIONI NBWVOKK 210 X \ V The enclosed communicatidn dated 22 June 1971 is transmitted to the Permanent Missiorts of the States Members of the United Nations at the request of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Rations. 1 X 23 June 1971 PERMANENT 15 EAST 70TH STREET REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL NEW YORK, N. Y. 1OO21 TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRAFALGAR 9-3611 22 June 1971 Excellency, On instructions of my Government I have the honour to refer to the letter of 10 June 1971 from the Permanent Representative ef the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics circulated by you to the Permanent Mission of the States Members of the United Nations under Note PO 210 of 14 June 1971. The Soviet letter suggests that the.general concern for the plight of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a politically motivated anti-Soviet campaign inspired by Israel and Zionism. The truth is too well known to be dismissed in so cavalier a fashion. The struggle of Soviet Jews for their elementary rights, and in particular for the right of those who so desire to reunite with their families and their people in. the Jewish State, is one of the most stirring human rights struggles of our time. It has evoked the sympathy of men of good will, Jews and non-Jews alike, in all parts of the world. Even supporters of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including Communist parties in other lands, have condemned the treatment meted out to Soviet Jews. There are many non-Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics itself, especially among the intelligentsia;, who have criticized their Government for depriving Jews of their natural rights. No ulterior motive is necessary to sympathize with the suffering of Soviet Jewry. There is no ulterior motive in feeling concern for the fact that Soviet Jews are denied their right to live as Jews, that they continue to be discriminated against and that show trials are being held of Jews who are not engaged in any anti-Soviet activities and whose only crime is their desire to join their people in Israel. His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General -2- It is characteristic of the Soviet attitude that the latfc« from tk* PtnMnent Representative of fh* Union of Soviet fodelist Kspufelics should ffiotsk its attack on a Jewish synagogue congrega&Um's efforts to express such. concern, in a Manner normal to d«?moeratl€f society, an ffssault on Israel snd Zioniws, the Jewish people's liberation movement. This is precisely the method to which th» Soviet (SovttRunmt resorts in its policy toward Soviet Jewry. The virolent campaign conducted by the Soviet authorities and by the gwerma«eit controlled information m©dia against Jews in the Union of Sovl®t Socialist Republics is carried on in the guise of attacks against Israel and Zionia® . Its target is clean it is the Jewish people and its fundamental rights . Centuries of tragic experience have taught Jews everywhere that only those who are steadfast In the defense of their rights survive. It is «vid@nt to all, mid it should be evident to the Soviet Govmrnsaent as well, that intimidation cannot dster the Jewish people in the Soviet Union from persisting in th@ struggle for their humsm rights nor can attacks such mu these contained in the abovenmentionsd letter weaken the worldwide support for this struggle. I have the honour to request that this letter be circulated to the Missions of th@ States Members of the United Nations . Pleas® accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest considera- tion. Y)6sef Tekoah Perman©nf Representative of Is to the United Nations UNITED NATIONS Press Section Office of Public Information United Nations, N.Y. (FOR USE OF INFORMATION MEDIA — NOT AN OFFICIAL RECORD) NV/252 2k June 1971 The text of the following communication dated 22 June to the Secretary- General, U Thant, which has.been circulated to Member Governments as a note, verbale. is reproduced below for the information of correspondents: PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL TO THE UNITED NATIONS " 22 June 1971 Excellency, On instructions of my Government I have the honour to refer to the letter of 10 June 1971 from the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics circulated by you to the Permanent Mission of the States Members of the United Nations under Note PO 210 of Ik June 1971. The Soviet letter suggests that the gen? ral concern for the plight of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a politically motivated anti- Soviet campaign inspired by Israel and Zionism. The truth is too well known to be dismissed in so cavalier a fashion. The struggle of Soviet Jews for their elementary rights, and in particular for the right of those who so desire to reunite with their families and their people in the Jewish State, is one of the most stirring human rights struggles of our time. It has evoked the sympathy of men of good will, Jews and non- Jews alike, in all parts of the world. Even supporters of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including Communist parties in other lands, have condemned the treatment meted out to Soviet Jews. There are many non-Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics itself, especially among the intelligentsia, who have criticized their Government for depriving Jews of their natural rights, (more) - 2 - BV/252 2k June 1971 Ho ulterior motive is necessary to 'sympathize with the suffering of Soviet Jewry» There is no ulterior motive in feeling concern for the fact that Soviet Jevs are denied their right to live as Jews, that they continue to "be discriminated against and that show trials are being held of Jews who are not engaged in any anti-Soviet activities and whose only crime is their desire to join their people in Israel* It is characteristic of the Sovie/ t attitude that the letter from the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics should mask its attack on a Jewish synagogue congregation's efforts to express euch concern in a manner normal to democratic society, with an assault on Israel and Zionism, the Jewish people's national liberation movement. This is precisely the method to which the Soviet Government resorts in its policy toward Soviet Jewry, The virulent campaign conducted by the Soviet authorities and by the Government controlled information media against Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is carried on in the guise of attacks against Israel and Zionism. Its target is clear; it is the Jewish people and its fundamental rights. Centuries of tragic experience have taught Jews everywhere that only those who are steadfast in the defense of their rights survive. It is evident to all, and it should be evident to the Soviet Government as well, that intimidation cannot deter the Jewish people in the Soviet Union from persisting in the struggle for their human rights nor can attacks such as those contained in the above-mentioned letter weaken the worldwide support for this struggle, I have the honour to request that this letter be circulated to the Missions of the States Members of the United Nations.. Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. (Signed) Yosef Tekoah Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations * ### * ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ON SOVIET JEWRY 315 LEXINGTON AVENUE • NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 (212) 689-7400 EXTENSION 242 Chairman HANS J.MORGENTHAU University of Chicago City University of New York HARRIS SCHOENBERG SPONSORS DANIEL AARON Smith College DANIEL BELL Harvard University SAUL BELLOW University of Chicago BRUNO BETTELHEIM University of Chicago MAX BLACK Cornell University JUSTUS BUCHLER Columbia University LEWIS A. COSER June 29, 1971 SUNY, Stony Brook HERBERT S. DINERSTEIN Johns Hopkins University RICHARD ELLMANN Northwestern University VICTOR ERLICH Yole University HERBERT FEIS Historian U Thant LEWIS S. FEUER University of Toronto Secretary-General MILTON FRIEDMAN University of Chicago WALTER GALENSON The United Nations Cornell University ELI GINZBERG New York, N.Y. 10017 Columbio University NATHAN GLAZER. Harvard University LOUIS GOTTSCHALK University of Chicago Personal HENRY F.GRAFF Columbia University LOUIS M. HACKER Columbia University OSCAR HANDLIN Harvard University My dear Secreta.ry-General: PHILIP M. HAUSER University of Chicago CARLO. HEMPEL Princeton University ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I know that you will be glad to learn Jewish Theological Seminary BERT F. HOSELITZ that Professor Mikhail Zand, about whom T University of Chicago IRVING HOWE Hunter College have written to you, has left the Soviet IRVING L. HOROWITZ Rutgers University Union with his family and has arrived safely ABRAHAM KAPLAN The University of Michigan in Israel. I am very grateful to you for ALFRED KAZIN SUNY, Stony Brook your efforts on his behalf. PETER B. KENEN Columbia University MILTON R. KONVITZ Cornell University ROBERT LEKACHMAN With my best wishes. SUNY, Stony Brook ABBA LERNER University of California, Berkeley DANIEL LERNER Res pi ly^yours M.I.T. MAX LERNER Brandeis University SEYMOUR M. LIPSET Harvard University SEYMOUR MELMAN HANS JT. M0RGENTHAU Columbia University ROBERT MERTON Columbia University Chairman SIDNEY MORGENBESSER Columbia University ERNEST NAGEL Columbia University HJMryo ALBERT B. SABIN Weizmann Institute ITHIEL DE SOLA POOL M.I.T. MEYER SCHAPIRO Columbia University BENJAMIN I. SCHWARTZ Harvard University MELFORD E. SPIRO University of California, San Diego LIONEL TRILLING Columbia University MELVINTUMIN Princeton University GEORGE WALD Harvard University JACOB WOLFOWITZ University of Illinois UNITED NATIONS iMff NATIONS UNIES NEW YORK CAPLB ADDRIM—ADR»tB TILIOHAPHICUd UNATIONI NIWYORK REFERENCE: 210 The enclosed translation of a communication dated 2 July 1971 is transmitted to the Permanent Missions of the States Members of the United Nations,at the request of the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United Nations. \ ; 6 July 1971 Translated from Russian DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS TO THE UNITED NATIONS No. 291 2 July 1971 Sir, With reference to the letter from the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, which was circulated "by you under reference PO 210 of 23 June 1971, attention must be drawn to the following facts. This letter, which was sent by the Permanent Representative of Israel on instructions from the Government of Israel, contains the usual collection of anti-Soviet slander and insinuations which do not deserve to be answered by the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations. Another point which can be noted is the identical nature of this letter with the Zionist anti-Soviet slander circulated in the United States. In a number of instances, this letter reproduces almost textually the anti-Soviet concoctions circulated by Zionist organizations in the United States, and in particular the vile slander and insinuations contained in recently issued publications of the United States Zionists. The question arises as to who is their author. Judging from the rapid reaction of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations to my letter of 10 June 1971, on instructions from the Government of Israel, it may be surmised that this slander is manufactured and circulated also on instructions from the Government of Israel. His Excellency U Thant Secretary-General of the United Nations New York -•t -2- It is also no coincidence that none other than the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, referring to f • instructions from the Government of Israel'i.-is attempting to protect and Justify the Zionist organizers of the anti-Soviet campaign in the United States who have been caught red-handed and unmasked. In his letter, vithout any embarrassment, he describes the methods, •which are typical of provocateurs, used by the organizers of the anti- Soviet campaign, including in particular their widespread circulation of slanderous cribs, as a manifestation "normal to democratic society". Such a reaction on the part of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, on instructions from the Government of Israel, once again demonstrates who organizes the Zionist anti-Soviet campaign in the United States and on whose instructions it is directed and inflated. No subterfuges, no verbal tight-rope walking, no slandering of the Soviet Union can enable the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, even referring to instructions from the Government of Israel, to conceal or disguise this fact. I would request you to have this letter circulated to the Missions of the States Members of the United Nations. (Signed) Y. MALIK Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United Nations v-' ^» 1 t TO : The Secretary-General FROM : Jean Gazarian FOR YOUR INFORMATION DME : 14 JUL 1971 UNITED NATIONS Wm$ NATIONS UNIES ^P/ NEW YORK CAILC AODKESI—ADHIIII TILIORAPHIQUI: UNATIONI NEWYORK H.F«I»NC«, PO 210 The enclosed communication dated 8 July 1971 is transmitted to the Permanent Missions of the _States Members of the United Nations at the request of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. """• -x " •-. X .'" "' . '* 9 July 1971 PERMANENT 15 EAST 7OTH STREET REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL NEW YORK, N. Y. 1OO21 TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRAFALGAR 9-3611 8 July 1971 Excellency, I have the honour to refer to the letter addressed to you by the Permanent Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 2 Juae 1971 and circulated by you under Note PO 210 of 6 July 1971. The Soviet letter gives no answer to the statements contained in my letter to you of 22 June 1971 regarding the denial of human rights to Soviet Jews. Instead, it chooses to heap the standard Soviet invective on the legitimate and world -wide concern for the plight of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . The Permanent Missions of States Members of the United Nations will undoubtedly understand that such a letter cannot contribute to a serious exchange of views and does not require a reply, irrespective of whether the Soviet Representative had sent it on instructions of his Government or not. I have the honour to request that this letter be circulated to the Missions of the States Members of the United Nations. Please accept, Excellency,, the assurances of my highest consideration. /Yosef Tekoah Permanent Representative of- to the United Nations His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General RJB REG BEU 12 Juijr 1971 Bear Mbassadoy Bush, .$•• have received your letter of 2 Jtuly concerning the request of & group of rabbis to meet •with me to discuss the U fhaat His .Excellency Kr. George Bush ' '. Ambassador Extiaor4inary awd Hesipotentisry Iferraaneat Sepresestativ© of the Otnited States of America to th^United Sfetions 799 tfeited Uatiosa Flaaa Sfew ITbrk, N^. 1Q01T THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE UNITED NATIONS July 2, 1971 His Excellency U Thant Secretary-General of the United Nations Excellency: This week a very distinguished group of rabbis called on me with the earnest request that you receive them so they might discuss the question of Soviet Jewry. I told them that I would pass along the invitation to you. I think it would be most helpful if you could find time in your very busy schedule to visit with them. These are the most responsible elements in the Jewish com- munity. They condemn the tactics of the Jewish Defense League that has caused us all so much embarrassment and grief. The more of a hearing we can give the re- sponsible Jewish leaders who have a legitimate protest, the less attention will be given to the radical elements Respectfully yours, George Bush OFFICER! fc Ratbi Harold I. Saperstein 3nt. President Baari t Rabbi William Berkowitz FTabbi Judah Cahn Rabbi Sol Roth Orthodox — Conservative — Reform Vice-Presidents Rabbi Samuel A. Berman 10 East 73rd STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10021 Telephone TRafalgar 9-8415 Founded Rabbi Herschel Levin Treasurers Rabbi Murray Grauer Recording Secretary Rabbi Harold H. Gordon Rabbi Judah Nadich Executive Vice-President & Corresponding Secretary Director o1 Chaplaincy Services Rabbi Saul I.Teplitz Rabbi I. Fred Hollander Financial Secretary Associate Director Rabbi Louis Finkelstein •Rabbi Nelson Glueck *Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Honorary Vice-Presidents Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow Chairman, June 30, 1971 Executive Committee 7 Tarnmuz, 5731 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman Chairman Hon. George Bush Officers, Past Presidents and United States Ambassador to Rabbi Sidney Applbaum the United Nations Rabbi Max Arzt Rabbi Bernard L. Berzon New York, N.Y. Rabbi Samuel M. Burstein Rabbi Samuel L. Cohen Rabbi Maurice Davis Dear Ambassador Bush, Rabbi Meir Felman Rabbi Max Gruenewald Rabbi David S. Halpern Rabbi David Haymovitz Yesterday we held a prayer meeting for the purposes Rabbi Philip Hiat of calling attention to the current trials against Rabbi Leo Jung Rabbi Norman Kahan Jews in the Soviet Union and the violation of the Rabbi David B. Kahane Rabbi Arnold G. Kaiman human rights of Jewish citizens of that country. Rabbi Abraham Kelman Rabbi Wolfe Kelman Rabbi Herman Kieval We feel that it involves the denial of the guarantees Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum Rabbi Israel Klavan of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the Rabbi Edward E. Klein Rabbi Ephraim S. Kolatch United Nations to which the Soviet Union was a signatory Rabbi Irving Koslowe and therefore should be dealt with at the level of the Rabbi Paul R. Kushner Rabbi Leo Landman United Nations. Rabbi S. Gershon Levi Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Rabbi Alvin M. Marcus Rabbi Julius Mark We would therefore urge that you use your good offices Rabbi Israel Miller to arrange a meeting of a delegation of the New York Rabbi Ronald Millstein Rabbi Chaim H. Pearl Board of Rabbis with His Excellency, Secretary General Rabbi Nathan Perilman Rabbi Sidney L. Regner of the United Nations, the Honorable, U Thant. In view Rabbi Paul Reich Rabbi Herbert H. Rose of the gravity of the situation we would urge that it Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal be effected as soon as possible. Rabbi Robert A. Rothman Rabbi Hyman J. Routtenberg Rabbi Arthur Schneier Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman Many thanks for your continued courtesies. Rabbi Reuven N. Siegel Rabbi Samuel M. Silver Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein Sincerely, Rabbi Benjamin B. Wykansky Rabbi Joel Y. Zion and Presidents of Boards of Rabbis: Rabbi Bernard Bloom, Capital District Rabbi HMrold I. Saperstein Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus, Brooklyn Rabbi Julius Goldberg, Nassau County President Rabbi Harvey Goldscheider, Syracuse Rabbi Joseph D. Herzog, Buffalo HI6;RL Rabbi Arnold A. Lasker, Essex County Rabbi Joseph H. Levine, Rochester Rabbi Arnold I. Sher, Greater Bridgeport Rabbi Jack Stern, Jr., Westchester County Rabbi Sheldon Thall, Rockland County Rabbi Judah I. Washer, Bergen County Mitchell Salem Fisher Counsel 71 PAST PRESIDENTS *Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs, 1881-93 •Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1916-17 •Rabbi Max Drob, 7933-34 Rabbi David J. Seligson, 7953-54 "Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler. 1B93-1902 "Rabbi Isaac S. Moses, 7978 •Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson, 7935-36 Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, 7955-56 •Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes, 7902-06 •Rabbi Moses Hyamson, 1919 •Rabbi Israel Goldfarb, 7937-38 •Rabbi Joseph Miller, 7957 •Rabbi Joseph Silverman, 1906-07 •Rabbi Nathan Stern, 7920 •Rabbi J. X. Cohen, 7939-40 Rabbi A. Alan Steinbach, 7958 •Rabbi F. de Sola Mendes, 7908-09 •Rabbi Clifton H.Levy, 7927-22 •Rabbi Joseph Sarachek, 1941-42 Rabbi David I. Golovensky, 7959-60 •Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, 1910-11 •Rabbi Simon R. Cohen, 7923-24 Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, 1943-44 Rabbi Harry Halpern, 7967 •Rabbi Bernard Drachman, 1912-13 Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 1925-26 Rabbi A. M. Heller, 7945-46 Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz, 7962-63 •Rabbi Rudolph Grossman, 1914-15 •Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas, 7927-28 Rabbi Theodore N. Lewis, 7947-48 Rabbi Max Schenk, 7964-65 •Rabbi Elias L. Solomon, 7929-30 •Rabbi Simon G. Kramer, 7949-50 Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, 7966-67 'Deceased •Rabbi Harry Weiss, 7937-32 Rabbi Morris M. Goldberg, 7957-52 Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, 7968-69 3 00 CD PERMANENT 15 EAST 7OTH STREET REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL NEW YORK, N. Y. 1OO21 TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRAFALGAR 9-3611 1 September 1971 Excellency, Further to my letter of 18 August 1971 and previous ones regarding the plight of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in particular their right to leave for Israel, I have the honour to enclose an appeal addressed to you and signed by five hundred and thirty one Jews, of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. ^Yosef Tekoah Permanent Representative "of Israel to the United Nations His Excellency U Thant The Secretary-General WASHINGTON POST, Saturday, 25 September 1971 4W§r ;,hj3 had received |appealsifr6m- fSOO Soviet; JewSi'in^he;; last Ijtwb'yearsirasKiri^ his help!in; (:gettingtd'israel^ilevsaid he has, beenHpffMa^yiiinfbrmed thVt toot&vithati; 400i;0f them; r^^i^L'j^-t^jtft^.^'astriiViftWiit'.^s^ttn.iV^?^^Sb*ieltJe^pBeeausfc:: 10 ^ UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM MEMORANDUM 1NTERIEUR TO: U Thant DATE: k October 1971 A: The Secretary-General REFERENCE: THROUGH: Mr. Roberto E. Guyer S/C DE: Under-Secretary-General >for Special Political Affairs FROM: Marc Schreiber, Director DE: Division of Human Rights SUBJECT: Letter from Dr. Eugenia Elliott OB JET: The enclosed communication was channeled to me together with other communications relating to human rights. You may wish to read it and possibly retain it in your files. J EUGENIA U. EL.UOTT. M. D. 11317 EAST 9STH STREET BROOKLYN. NEW YORK 11236 September Hon. S@coi@ta?r3r General of the Fnfted" Nations U Thanfr United Cations- Plazaa r Mr.S'ecaretary r Mish to' ©3£pa?e!ss w&imr girattlfruxJep fro you- ro-r your- gracsi'ouff Inter- mention in the reunion/ csf nuta&rcni'S families, f5 Soviet Ru-ffisla with their relatives in Is?- with mjr highest respect t© jrou .6373T tmrljr yemrs EUGENIA U. ELLIOTT. M. D. 1317 EAST S9TH STREET BROOKLYN, NEW YORK* 11336 a. 1 . Isaac Hamra 2 . Cirlotte Chamra 3 . Melles 4. Boukihi (18 years old) 5. Badia Dibbo (18 years old) 6. Yachar (18 years old) 7. Abdo Saagia (19 years old) 8. Simon Bis sou (19 years old) 9. Azur Blanda (27 years old), his wife (24 years old), and his son (4 years old) NEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, 11 November 1971 , Nov. 10—A lisLof names saic I: to" include those'of more ^than J 1,000' Soyiet Jews, who wan ] to: emigrate to Israel was pre sented today to Adam Malijc o Indonesia,'President of the Gen eral Assembly, by Yosef Te koaih, Israel's chief representa ;; ; . tiye/.';" , •••' -/:; .: '• . >.:• • ; - 1 :,; Mr. Tekoah's announcemen of the presentation said tha those .who had signed' the iis came-from all over the Soyie Unions that,: the list includet their full nanies and addresses and that in most cases signature represented a. family He said it was the largest number of signers, of any single appeal' from. /Soviet : Jews, though he said he had trans- mitted "several hundred such appeals" to Uiiited .Nations officials. 'He also said his delegation found.•= ,the, State Department .A'l-^lir,- '. '.•,'•'. '^. »1-' -1.. :...•-. -i'il-Ki'l , •i&l;,i!^',:',li UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION EXTERNAL RELATIONS DIVISION INFORMATION SUPPORT SECTION (For Secretariat Use Only) 22 November 1971 (First Report) SPECIAL REPORT ON 'THE FRENCH LANGUAGE PRESS CHINA'S POSITION ON BIG POWER TALKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST STILL UNKNOWN AFP-103A UNITED NATIONS, NOVEMBER 22 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA HAS NOT YET MADE KNOWN ITS POSITION ON THE BIG POWER TALKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, IT IS INDICATED ON MONDAY IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES AT THE UNITED NATIONS WHERE THE RECENT DEVELOP- MENTS OF THE ISRAELI ARAB CONFLICT IS CAUSING INCREASING APPREHENSION. IN THIS RESPECT/IP' IS NOTED IN THESE CIRCLES THAT, CONTRARY TO CERTAIN INFORMATION CARRIED BY THE AMERICAN PRESS, FRANCE HAS NOT MADE ANY DEMARCHE WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA WHETHER AT THE UN OR IN OTHER CAPITALS TO ASK HER WHETHER SHE INTENDED PARTICIPATING IN THESE TALKS. IT IS ADDED BY A RELIABLE SOURCE THAT,IN ANT CASE, FRANCE WOULD NEVER HAVE UNDERTAKEN SUCH A DEMARCHE WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN THE TALKS. LETTER REPORTED SENT TO U THANT BY SOVIET JEWS "^ AFP-109 TEL AVIV, 22 NOVEMBER RADIO ISRAEL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT 24 JEWS FROM COVNO, V1LNA AND RIGA IN THE USSR HAD SENT A LETTER TO U THANT TO ASK HIM TO INTERVENE ON THEIR BEHALF SO THAT THEY COULD EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. THE LETTER WHICH CARRIES THE NAMES AND THE ADDRESSES OF THE SIGNATORIES INVOKES "THE INCAPACITY*OF THE USSR TO RESOLVE THE JEWISH PROBLEM WHICH HAS BEEN\ AGGRAVATED BECAUSE OF THE REFUSAL OF THE SOVIET REGIME TO ALLOW JEWS OF THE USSR TO LIVE A NORMAL CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS JEWISH LIFE". T-t, Mr. Albert Elia age 67, Secretary of the Jewish community of Beirut. Kidnapped on 8 September 1971. The Beirut daily El-Nahar reported the next day that there is a rumour that the kidnapping was carried out by the services of one of the Arab states. The same newspaper published on 29 September a report from Lebanese police sources that Mr. Elia was transported by his kidnappers to a neighbouring Arab state. The Beirut daily Al-Hayat reported on 10 September that the kid- napped was in Syria. Sources in the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva declared on 13 October that Mr. Elia is in Damascus and that he is receiving medical attention.