Speaker. passage of this resolution and a deep searching discussion of this matter between the President and the leaders of the Soviet Union are not the only two actions which our Government can take to help ameliorate the plight of Soviet Jewry. There are many other ways in which our country could make its concern known. I therefore support the resolution before this body which calls upon the President to take immediate and determined steps to call upon the U.S.S.R. to end religious discrimination and to permit its citizens to exercise their right to emigrate. The Soviet Union must be made to realize that. as an established power which does not face any real external threat. it need not fear competitive ideas. it need fear neither those who criticize Soviet society nor those who seek to recall their cultural heritage. Finally. the Soviets must be made to realize that the detente it apparently seeks with the United States can only be furthered. not stymied. by granting to Soviet Jewry as well as others in the Soviet Union. the full rights of worship. cultural diversity. and migration enjoyed by citizens in all freedomloving nations.
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