Speaker. on December 11. 1973. the House passed legislation which will assist in the advancement of freedom for Soviet JewF and enacted a grant of $2.2 billion for the State of Israel which will guarantee to that small country the security and stability which it needs in order to negotiate effectively with its Arab neighbors. I was pleased to see these two separate developments come together on the same day by a happy coincidence. I was also pleased to see the final enactment of the JacksonVanik amendment by which the United States may give the mostfavorednation status to Russia as well as a guarantee of credits and credit guarantees only if Russia establishes and implements a policy by which any Russian citizen may. if he so desires. emigrate to another nation. I have supported the JacksonVanik amendment enthusiastically from the beginning and have advocated its enactment on every appropriate occasion. For months we have seen the inherent moral logic of the JacksonVanik amendment accepted by more and more Members of Congress of all political and ideological backgrounds. It is indeed gratifying to note that on December 11 the House of Representatives cast the overwhelming vote of 319 to 80 on behalf of the freedom of immigration of Soviet Jews. It is indeed heartening to recognize that the U.S. Congress has by its vote insisted on the full implementation of the mandates of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which both the U.S.S.R. and the United States subscribed in 1948.
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