Official observers believe this has been brought about through a planned policy of discrimination and quotas. Thousands of Jewish families were broken and spread over other parts of the world as the result of the Nazi invasion. Many of the refugees now live in Israel or West European countries. yet the Soviet authorities have denied permission to Jewish family members remaining in the Soviet Union to leave the U.S.S.R. in order to be reunited with their families elsewhere. Despite the full recognition of these. and many more effects of obvious Jewish repression within the U.S.S.R.. the official policy of our Department of State has been. and continues to be. that no official protests should be made to the Soviet authorities. The reason given is that such official recognition and pressure on the Soviet Government by our Government might bring about certain repercussions and retaliation on Soviet Jewry.
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