Australia. and the leaders of Switzerland? We have come too far toward insuring minimal human decency in the world community to allow any nation to claim that gross injustices are no one elses business. The history of Soviet persecution of its Jewish citizens and its prohibition against their emigration made these entire proceedings suspect. The world community. as well as the Soviet Union. will be shamed if a man is allowed to be executed when his alleged crime. in his own words. was that "I only wanted to live in Israel." Moreover. it is apparent that the trial in Leningrad is the forerunner of a series of trials in which the dominant note is to be the further prosecution of Soviet Jewry. American and world opinion must not only seek justice for those involved in the Leningrad trial. but must also endeavor to forestall persecution of scores of additional Soviet Jews.
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