Before any such agreement is made. it is important that the Department of Agriculture understand the misgivings of many Americans about such extension of credit to the Government of the Soviet Union. The Committee on Soviet Jewry. for example. wrote to Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin. stating: We oppose this sale for many reasons. But primarily. our opposition stems from the bankrupt moral philosophy of the Russian government by not allowing their Jewish citizens cultural and religious freedom. or the right to emigrate. Shall the U.S. Government help to subsidize a government which has deprived its own citizens of all basic and elementary freedoms?
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