COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 70-614 NOVEMBER 9 AND 10, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina RONALD V. DELLUMS, California WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California EDWARD J. DERWINSKI, Illinois ROY J. BULLOCK, Staff Administrator SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York, Chairman WAYNE L. HAYS, Ohio PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey PAUL FINDLEY, Illinois JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut MORGAN F. MURPHY, Illinois J. HERBERT BURKE, Florida JOHN BUCHANAN, Alabama SHERMAN P. LLOYD, Utah GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan CLIFFORD P. HACKETT, Subcommittee Staff Consultant (II) CONTENTS1 LIST OF WITNESSES Tuesday, November 9, 1971: Bailey, F. Lee, representing the League for Repatriation of Russian Page Bingham, Hon. Jonathan, a Representative in Congress from the State Buchanan, Hon. John, a Representative in Congress from the State Davies, Richard T., Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs- Polansky, Sol, formerly First Secretary of the American Embassy in Segal, Rabbi Zev, Chairman, Essex County Conference on Soviet Weiss, Rabbi Avriaham, Member of the Board, Center for Russian Zweibon, Bertram, National Vice-Chairman, Jewish Defense League Wednesday, November 10, 1971: 2 25 19 39 10 49 35 80 Anderson, Hon. John B., a Representative in Congress from the State 122 Gluzman, Rita, a recent emigrant from the Soviet Union to Israel.. 101 130 Kemp, Hon. Jack F., a Representative in Congress from the State of 116 Korey, William, Director, New York Bureau, B'nai B'rith Interna- 140 McClellan, Rev. Graydon E., General Presbyter, Presbytery of 148 Maass, Richard, Chairman, National Conference on Soviet Jewry. 93 132 Vanik, Hon. Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the State of 87 STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD BY Abzug, Hon. Bella S., a Representative in Congress from the State of 153 Brasco, Hon. Frank J., a Representative in Congress from the State of 155 Broomfield, Hon. William S., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan 158 Carey, Hon. Hugh L., a Representative in Congress from the State of 159 An index to these hearings appears on p. 311. Drinan, Hon. Robert F., a Representative in Congress from the State of Page 162 McClory, Hon. Robert, a Representative in Congress from the State of 38 Sisk, Hon. B. F., a Representative in Congress from the State of California_ Widnall, Hon. William B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Alpert, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, and Braverman, Mr. and Mrs. Bert, joint statement of, submitted by Congressman Robert McClory- Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, text of letter to Mr. Richard Bronstein, Rabbi Harry, President, Al Tidom Association, Inc., statement 203 Chicago Community Council of Jewish Organizations, by Joel J. Spray- regen, Chairman of its Soviet Jewry Committee, statement of.... Fact Sheet on Soviet Jewry, submitted by Mr. Richard Maass, Chairman, Jewish Prisoners in the Soviet Union, chart submitted by Mr. Richard Maass, Chairman, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.. Letter submitted by Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham from Rabbi Charles Sheer, Jewish Chaplain, Columbia University in the City of New York, to Mr. Richard T. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, dated November 10, 1971, including- Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin, April 1, 1971, on the murder of a Jewish scholar in Minsk, and the burning of its matzoth Jewish Telegraphic Agency News Bulletin, October 4, 1971, describing the order to close one of the three remaining synagogues in Moscow- Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction, excerpt from the Novosti Press Agency, Potma: Repression of Jews in the Soviet Union, edited by Louis Rosen- Racial Discrimination, text of International Convention on the Elimina- Soviet Educational Policy and the Jews, by Marc Hurwitz,-submitted by Soviet Jewish Political Prisoners: Background Report, submitted by Mr. Page 244 251 257 263 302 309 |