In thinking. of the future of our relations with the Soviet Union. we Americans must consider our links with these peoples as well as with the Russians. An important component of Radio Libertys Russian broadcasts has been programs in behalf of Soviet Jews. This has included scores of separate appeals by individual Soviet Jews and groups of Jews protesting discriminatory practices and demanding in many cases the right to emigrate to Israel. I understand that the station also tries in other ways to keep alive for its Jewish listeners an awareness of their ethnic. and cultural identity in the face of regime efforts to efface traditional values. Jewish high holidays have been celebrated in Radio Liberty broadcasts with Hebrew prayers and songs. A regular feature of Russian broadcasts has been material dealing with condemnations of antiSemitism and other forms of intolerance by revered Russian humanists of the past. and by persons abroad whose names are respected in the U.S.S.R. A recent immigrant to Israel. the physicist Boris Tsukerman who was associated with Academician Sakharov. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. and others in creating an unofficial "Committee on Human Rights" in the Soviet Union. commented after leaving the country: Special hopes have been placed. of course. on a radio station which has paid special heed to the requirements of various categories of Soviet radio listeners and has had the mission of satisfying these requirements. Radio Libertys value as a world asset is recognized internationally.
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