This is a most appropriate time. to review thoroughly our pending trade agreements with the Soviet Union to make sure our Nation shows its support of basic human rights. The Soviet Union is violating its pledged word in the Covenant on Human Rights. and its own Constitution. for that matter. Both these instruments proclaim the right of the citizens of the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration to another land. The use of international trade agreements for eliciting concessions from a trading partner is not new. The administration has already made it clear that the granting of mostfavorednation status to the Soviet Union is contingent upon their repayment of the lendlease loans which were made during the Second World War.
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