In a recent meeting in Washington of American businessmen and Soviet trade officials. Soviet official Vladimir Arbatov went so far as to state that the approval by the Congress of this proposal would produce an increase in antiSemitism not only in the Soviet Union but in the United States itself. I submit that this will not occur and that the American people are not interested in bailing out a faltering Soviet economy so long as that country continues to deny its citizens the basic human right to emigrate. The arrogance of threats of this kind against this amendment by Soviet officials reinforces a longstanding conviction of mine that the nature of the Russian Communist is not near as changeable as some pundits have assumed. Be that as it may.
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Accusation that allowing Jewish emigration would increase anti-Semitism.