Mondale avail themselves of the opportunity to raise the subject of Soviet Jewry with Andrei Gromyko. It must be made clear to the Foreign Minister that the U.S.S.R.s treatment of Soviet Jews is completely unacceptable and a matter of grave concern to the American Government. We in the United States must never be silent on this issue until the persecution stops and all of the 2.5 million Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. are allowed to do so. The Soviets can not merely brush our criticisms aside by saying that the issue of Soviet Jewry is an internal affair of the Soviet Government. By signing the Helsinki accords. the United Nations charter. and other international agreements. the Soviets have implicitly acknowledged that human rights is a dominant value in the international community that must be respected. The Soviet Government may continue its antiSemitic propaganda. keep emigration from the U.S.S.R. at the lowest level everif the current trend continues. emigration for all of 1984 will be less than the weekly average for 1979and step up its repression of refuseniks. But the Soviets will never still our voices. Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale must not be silent..
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