And was it the Russian taxpayer who footed the bill for the shipping subsidies? Moreover. it is not conceivable that the leading member of the Soviets proletariat. champagne sipping. limousineloving Brezhnev. fully aware of Americas interest. at home and abroad. in minority rights. intends to milk the plight of Russian Jewry for all its material worth. Does he not know us well enough to expect that he may possibly be rewarded for ceasing to do what he should not have been doing in the first instancefor ceasing to do what a normal. rational nation would not dothat is. blackmail. by the sale of freedom. its citizens as a condition to emigrate to a country of their choice? Had it not worked for the Cuban Communists? The Senators who had lunch with the worlds leading Bolshevik on June 19. were reportedly to remark later that they were impressed by his preparations for his trip. Surely the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party would have a tourists awareness of a certain statue standing tall in New York Harbor with an inscription graven on her pedestal which in effect symbolizes U.S. immigration and. by inference. emigration policy: Give me your tired. your poor. your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these. the homeless. tempesttossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. The right to emigrate. according to Dr. William Korey. director of Bnai Briths U.N. office. had been referred to by the Magna Charta as part of the natural law. At a conference at the University of Uppsala. in June 1972. attended by 70 distinguished international legal luminaries from 20 countries. a declaration was adopted specifying that there shall be no restrictions. no reprisals. no sanctions. no penalties. no harassments for the exercise of the right to leave ones country. and no special fees. taxes or similar devices for inhibiting that right.
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