THE PLIGHT OF JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION

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Interior to construct,'operate, and main-
tain the Dixie project, Utah, and for
rother purposes, which had been reported
From the Committee on Interior and In-
sular Affairs, with amendments, on
-page 2, line 9, after the word "desirable.",
to insert "The Dixie project shall be
coordinated with the Cedar City water
development program which includes the
diversion of the waters of Crystal Creek
into the Kolob Reservoir, and after com-
pletion of the Dixie project said waters
of Crystal Creek and of the natural
watershed of said Kolob Reservoir shall
be exported for use of Cedar City and
vicinity in accordance with an agreement
entered by Cedar City and Iron County,
Utah, on the 26th day of August 1953,
with Kolob Reservoir and Storage As-
sociation, Incorporated, and Washing-
ton County, Utah."; on page 4, line 11,
after the word "period", to insert "but
not to exceed $3,500,000"; in line 23, after
the word "project", to strike out "in a
manner consistent with the other proj-
ect purposes" and insert "but these
undertakings shall be coordinated with
the other project purposes"; on page 5,
after line 12, to strike out:
(b) The Secretary may make such rea-
sonable provision in connection with the
Dixie project as, upon further study in ac-
cordance wtlh section 2 of the Fish and
Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as
amended; 16 U.S.C. 661, 662), he finds to be
required for the conservation and develop.
ment of fish and wildlife. An appropriate
portion of the cost of the development shall
be allocated as provided in said Act and it,
together with the Federal operation and
maintenance costs allocated to this function,
shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable
under the reclamation laws.
In line 23, after "Sec. 7.", to insert
"(a) "; and on page 6, after line 3, to
insert:
(b) In the operation and maintenance of
all facilities under the jurisdiction and
supervision of the Secretary of the interior
authorized by this Act, the Secretary of the
Interior is directed to comply with the appli.
cable provisions of the Colorado River com-
pact, the Upper Colorado River Basin com-
pact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the
Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the
Colorado River Storage Project Act (and any
contract lawfully entered into by the United
States under any of said Acts), the treaty
with the United Mexican States, and the.
operating principles, and to comply with the
laws of the State of Utah, relating to the
control, appropriation, use, and distribution
of water therein. In the event of the failure
of the Secretary of the Interior to so com-
ply, any State of the Colorado River Basin
may maintain an action in the Supreme
Court of the United States to enforce the
provisions of this section and consent is
given to the joinder of the United States as
a party in such suits, as a defendant or
otherwise.
So as to make the bill read:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That for the
purposes of developing the water resources
of the Virgin and Santa Clara Rivers, .in-
cluding the, furnishing of municipal and in-
dustrial water supplies, the furnishing of
an Irrigation water supply to approximately
twenty-one thousand acres of land, the con-
trol of floods, the generation and sale of elec-
tric energy, the conservation and develop-
ment of fish and wildlife resources, and the
enhancement of recreation opportunities, the
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 19101
Secretary of the Interior Is authorized to
construct, operate, and maintain the Dixie
project, Utah. The project shall consist of
the Virgin City Dam and Reservoir, tunnels,
canals, siphons, pumping plants, and other
works necessary to serve irrigated and irri-
gable lands along and adjacent to the Virgin
River; a dam on the Santa Clara River near
Gunlock, Utah, and other works necessary
to serve irrigated and irrigable lands along
and adjacent to the Santa Clara River and on
Ivins Bench; and hydroelectric plants and
transmission facilities at the Virgin City
Dam and at such other points as are desir-
able. The Dixie project shall be coordi-
nated with the Cedar City water develop-
ment program which includes the diversion
of the waters of Crystal Creek into the Kolob
Reservoir, and after completion of the Dixie
project said waters of Crystal Creek and of
the natural watershed of said Kolob Reservoir
shall be exported for use of Cedar City and
vicinity in accordance with an agreement
entered by Cedar City and Iron County, Utah,
on the 26th day of August 1953, with Kolob
Reservoir and Storage Association, Incor-
porated, and Washington County, Utah.
SEc. 2. The project shall include such
measures for the disposition of saline waters
of La Verkin Springs as are necessary in the
opinion of the Secretary to insure the deliv-
ery of water at downstream points along the
Virgin River for water users in the States
of Arizona and Nevada of suitable quality.for
irrigation, or provision shall be made to in-
demnify such water users for any impair-
ment of water quality for irrigation pur-
poses directly attributable to Dixie project
operations.
SEC. 3. In constructing, operating, and
maintaining the works authorized by this
Act, the Secretary shall be governed by the
Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17,
1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto), except as
is otherwise provided In this Act.
SEc. 4. Construction of the project shall
not be commenced until there shall be es-
tablished a conservancy district or similar
organization with such powers as may be
required by the Secretary, these to include
powers to tax both real and personal prop-
erty within the boundary of the district and
to enter Into contracts with the United
States for the repayment of reimbursable
costs.
SEC. 5. The interest rate to be used for
purposes of computing interest during con-
struction and interest on the unpaid balance
of those portions of the reimbursable costs
which are properly allocable to commercial
power development and municipal and in-
dustrial water supply shall be determined
by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the
beginning of the fiscal year in which this
bill is enacted, on the basis of the computed
average interest rate payable by the Treasury
upon its outstanding marketable public ob-
ligations, which are neither due nor callable
for redemption for fifteen years from date
of issue. If the interest rate so computed
is not a multiple of one-eighth of 1 per
centum, the rate of interest to be used for
these purposes shall be the multiple of one-
eighth of 1 per centum next lower than the
rate so computed. The portions of the costs
which are allocable to commercial power de-
velopment and to municipal and industrial
water supply shall be repaid over a period
of fifty years with interest at the rate de-
termined in accordance with this section.
The portion of the costs which is properly
allocable to irrigation and which is beyond
the water users' ability to repay in fifty
years plus a ten-year development period
but not to exceed $3,500,000 shall be returned
to the reclamation fund within such period
from revenues derived by the Secretary of
the Interior from the disposition of power
marketed from Federal projects in the Lower
Colorado River Basin.
SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary of the Interior
is authorized as a part of the Dixie project
to construct, operate, and maintain public
recreation facilities including access roads,
to acquire or to withdraw from entry or
other disposition under the public land laws
such adjacent lands or interests therein as
are necessary for present and future public
recreation use, and to provide for public use
and enjoyment of the same and of the water
areas of the project but these undertakings
shall be coordinated with the other project
purposes. The Secretary is authorized to
enter into agreements with State or local
public agencies or other public entities for
the operation, maintenance, or additional
development of project lands or facilities or
to dispose of project lands or facilities to
State or local agencies or other public en-
tities by lease, transfer, exchange or con-
veyance, upon such terms and conditions as
will best promote their development and
operation in the public interest for recrea-
tion purposes. The costs of the undertak-
ings described in this section, including costs
of investigation, planning, operation, and
maintenance and an appropriate share of
the joint costs of the Dixie project, shall be
nonreimbursable.
SEC. 7. (a) The use of all water diverted
for this project from the Colorado River sys-
tem shall be subject to and controlled by
the Colorado River compact, the Boulder
Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057; 43 V.S.C.
617t), and the Mexican Water Treaty (Treaty
Series 994) (59 Stat. 1219).
(b) In`the operation and maintenance of
all facilities under the jurisdiction and su-
pervision of the Secretary of the Interior au-
thorized by this Act, the Secretary of the In-
terior Is directed to comply with the appli-
cable provisions of the Colorado River com-
pact, the Upper Colorado River Basin com-
pact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the
Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the
Colorado River Storage Project Act (and
any contract lawfully entered into by the
United States under any of said Acts), the
treaty with the United Mexican States, and
the operating principles, and to comply with
the laws of the State of Utah, relating to the
control, appropriation, use, and distribution
of water therein. In the event of the failure
of the Secretary of the Interior to so com-
ply, any State of the Colorado River Basin
may maintain an action in the Supreme
Court of the United States to' enforce the
provisions of this section and consent is
given to the joinder of the United States
as a party in such suits, as a defendant or
otherwise.
SEc. S. There Is hereby authorized to be
appropriated, out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such
sums as may be required to carry out the
purposes of this Act.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, this
bill has been called up in order to have
this proposed legislation pending before
the Senate. No action will be taken to-
PLIGHT OF JEWS IN THE
SOVIET UNION
Mr. RIBICOFF. Mr. President, the
plight of Jews in the Soviet Union con-
tinues to shock the conscience of the
world. This morning's Washington Post
comments editorially on the latest evi-
dence from the Soviet Union of a con-
certed effort, directed by the government,
to persecute Russian Jews.
This past weekend a distinguished
group of Americans met at the Carnegie
International Center in New York City to
attend the Conference on the Status of
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE October 22
Soviet Jews. The conference, whose
sponsors are Justice William O. Douglas,
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sen-
ator Herbert H..Lehman, Bishop James
A. Pike, Walter Reuther, Norman Thom-
as, and Robert Penn Warren reviewed re-
cent developments in the Soviet Union
and issued an appeal of conscience.
In the Senate, the resolution which I
recently introduced,, expressing the sense
of the Senate in opposition to the perse-
cution of Jews in the Soviet Union and
calling upon the Soviet Government to
grant full freedom of religion to all with-
in its borders, now has the cosponsorship
of 64 Senators. I hope the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee will set this resolution
down for an early hearing so that it may
soon be acted upon by the Senate.
I ask unanimous consent to have
printed in the RECORD the editorial and
the "Appeal of Conscience." 1
There being no objection, the editorial
and appeal were ordered to be printed
in the RECORD as follows:
[From the Washington Post, Oct. 22, 1963]
APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE
No person of fairness or feeling could fail
to be shocked by Izvestia's call for a show
trial and death sentences for several Soviet
citizens accused of embezzlement. The pa-
per went on to say that "we mesltion the
Jewish names of people in this ring because
we do not pay attention to the malicious
slander that. is skirred up from time, to time
in the Western press. If the Kremlin had
deliberately undertaken to, cast doubts on
the Soviet judicial process nd to raise fears
about the situation of 'Soviet, Jews, it could
not have improved on the Izvestia article.
The article is of special interest in the
context of a recent Conference on the Status
of Soviet Jews in New York.. A day of search-
ing inquiry by a group of distinguished and
AN APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOR THE JEWS OF
THE SOVIET UNION
(Statement adopted by the Conference on
the Status of Soviet Jews, Carnegie Inter-
national Center, 345 East 46th Street, New
York City, October 12, 1963)
Having heard careful and objective evi-
dence about many aspects of the life of Jews
in the Soviet Union, we are moved 'to express
unanimously our grave concern and to make
the following appeals:
We appeal to all those in the U.S.S.R. who
genuinely desire the eradication of the evils
of Stalinism and who, with us, thirst for
truth, justice, and decency.
We appeal to the Soviet authorities to act
in this matter on the basis of their own
ideological, constituttional, and legal commit-
ments.
We'ferventiy hope that the following speci-
fic steps may be taken:
1. Jewish education in all its forms should
be permitted.
2. Jewish cultural institutions should be
reopened and Jewish artistic life-literature,
theater, music, in Yiddish and Hebrew-
should be allowed to develop fully.
3. Central institutions to serve the reli-
gious-needs of Soviet Jewry should be estab-
lished; obstacles to the performance of sacred
rites hould be removed.
4. Formal religious and cultural bonds
with Jewish communities abroad should be
allowed, official exchange visits permitted,
and the right to make religious pilgrimages
to the Holy Land granted.
5. Permission for Jews to leave the U.S.S.R.,
so that they may be reunited with families
in other lands from whom they have been
separated, should be implemented.
6. The anti-Jewish character that so
strongly colors the official campaign against
economic crimes should be eliminated.
7. $ vigorous educational campaign
against anti-Semitism should be undertaken.
We issue this appeal in all solemnity as a
matter, of urgency and elementary decency.
addressed to the Secretary of the In-
terior by Mr. Campbell.
The findings of the General Account-
ing Office show in the case, Mr. Presi-
dent, that this contract award was
rigged against Fouke Fiur Co. by the
Interior Department, and that the law
was violated in several instances.
I have referred this matter, with my
complete files, to the distinguished
chairman of the Government Operations
Committee, Senator JOHN MCCLELLAN,
with the request that his investigating
subcommittee pursue this matter further
with a view toward determining whether
there may have been other such viola-
tions of law by the Interior Department
or other agencies of the Government in
making contract awards. So that the
Members of the Senate and the Members
of the House might have access to some
of this material, I ask unanimous con-
sent there be printed at the conclusion
of these remarks the following materials:
A letter addressed to. me from the
Comptroller General of the United States
dated October 10, 1963, and the en-
closure, which consists of a copy of a
letter from the Comptroller General of
the United States to the Secretary of the
Interior, also dated October 10, 1963.
My weekly newsletter of October 21,
1963, entitled "The Biased Umpire."
An editorial from the Greenville Pied-
mont, of Greenville, S.C., dated October
14, 1963.
An editorial. from the Spartanburg
Herald, of Spartanburg, S.C., dated Oc-
tober 14, 1963.
An editorial from the State, of Co-
lumbia, S.C., dated October 18, 1963.
A front page editorial from Barron's,
National Business and Financial Weekly,
dated October 21, 1963.
An article from the Greenville News
uv~ 1VU. V- -11. 1-
o f Conscience" to Soviet authorities to re-
move the officially imposed disabilities-
against Jews and to restore to them the
rights accorded other. Soviet groups. One
part of the appeal stated: "The anti-Jewish
character that so strongly colors the official
campaign against economic crimes should be
eliminated."
Izvestias insistence that we do not pay
attention" to foreign protests is also of note.
Before the New York conference was held,
the Soviet Embassy here dispatched a staff
member to visit Arthur Miller, one of the
conference invitees. The... envoy's purpose,
the playwright reported, was to persuade
him not to take part in the conference. Mr.
Miller, of course, rejected the "diplomat's"
overtures.
Now Izvestia states that it will, ignore
"malicious slander" to the. effect that Jews
are singled out for particular publicity and
punishment for so-called economic crimes.
This is the same breath in which it Specifies
that the accused have "Jewish names" and
that they deserve the death penalty.`
For reasons best known to themselves the
Soviet leaders discriminate heavily against
Jews. The evidence is overwhelming and
incontrovertible and renewed almost daily
by the Russians themselves. Civilized men
everywhere will surely join the conference's
appeal "to all those in the U.S.S.R. who
genuinely desire the eradication of the evils
of Stalinism and who thirst for truth, justice
and decency."
of Greenville, S.C., dated October 15,
1963.
An article from Women's Wear Daily,
of October 18, 1963.
There being no objection, the various
items were ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, D.C., October 10, 1963.
Hon. STROM THURMOND,
U.S. Senate.
DEAR SENATOR THURMOND: With reference
to your interest in a protest filed with this
Office by Fouke Fur Co. against the award of
a contract for the processing and sale of seal-
skins to a joint venture known as Supara,
we are enclosing a copy of our letter of today
to the Secretary of the Interior advising of
our opinion that the award was in violation
of law and regulations and should therefore
be rescinded.
If we can be of further service in this mat-
PROCESSING AND SALE OF ALASKA
SEALSKINS
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, in
March of 1963, the Interior Department
awarded to the joint venture known as
Supara of Chicago, Ill., a contract award
for the processing and sale of Alaska
sealskins. At the time of this award, Mr.
President, I protested to the Interior
Department that the award was made in
violation of Government contract laws
and procedures. The Interior Depart-
ment insisted that its position was valid,
and so I asked the General Accounting
Office to look into this matter to deter-
mine if there had been any violation
of law and procedures in selecting
Supara over the Fouke Fur Co., which
had - been doing this work for the
Government for the past 40 years in a
most exemplary manner.
On October 11, 1963, I received a letter
from the Comptroller General of the
United States, Mr. Joseph Campbell, in-
forming me that the award was "in
violation of law and regulations and
should therefore be rescinded." At-
tached to Mr. Campbell's letter was a
33-page opinion in the form of a letter
ter, please advise us.
Sincerely yours,
JOSEPH CAMPBELL.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, D.C., October 10; 1963.
The Honorable THE SECRETARY OF THE IN-
TERzox.
DEAR Mx. SECRETARY: Reference is made
to a protest by Fouke Fur Co. against the
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