For while we all dream of a world wherein no one wields a sword and no one drags a chain. history shows that it is the American people who live their dreams and seek to extend them to others the world over. It is in this context that I rise to remind you of the plight of Soviet Jews. As I speak. there are approximately 375.000 such people who have applied and are awaiting the chance to emigrate from a land where the ugly stain of antiSemitism predates Communist rule. Yet while prejudice was not introduced into the Soviet bloodstream by Lenin and his successors. who among us can question the reality of official persecution carried out by the men who rule from Moscow? Let me read to you the following. taken from chapter 4. article 29 of the Soviet constitution... "The U.S.S.R.s relation with other states are based on observance of the following principles ...
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