Mr. Speaker. I wish to briefly add my personal sentiments today to those of my distinguished colleagues on the question of the repressive financial penalties being imposed upon Jews wishing to emigrate from the Soviet Union. We are all. quite naturally. anxious to achieve a lessening of cold war tensions. but we cannot turn our backs on our profound moral responsibility to take a stand in the interest of human justice. Congressional resolutions of condemnation are most certainly appropriate in the face of the Soviet ransom policy. but they are not enough. Accordingly. I applaud the sponsors of todays special order for directing the attention of Congress and of the Nation toward more concrete actions which might be taken to influence the Soviet Union to rescind their onerous and unjust restrictions against the emigration of Jews. Once before. the free world hesitated too long before facing up to a similar policy of bigotry. In 1972. the world is a much smaller place.
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