I feel that one of the most hopeful tendencies in moving toward world peace and the reduction of international tensions is peaceful trade. It has been my hope for some time that we would see a substantial movement in that direction. However. just as we were making impressive gains. the Soviet Union seemed to be tending toward a new and I think outrageous policy of imposing a hostage tax upon educated Jews wishing to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Just a few days ago I placed a telephone call and talked personally to an engineer in Latvia. who told me he had been asked to pay the equivalent of $40.000 in order to get an exit visa to leave that part of what is now. or is claimed to be. a part of the Soviet Union. His information is that throughout the Soviet Union this kind of tax is being imposed on people who do not have the funds themselves. and who are. I guess. expected to .try to raise the money from sources outside the Soviet Union.
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