Schoenman informs Yen that everyone is happy to hear that his family was reunited on Jan. 1.

BR cannot support Gertrude Baer's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Detter would like BR to write a letter to the Foreign Minister to help his friends in China get permission to travel together. Detter encloses copies of a statement on the efforts the family has made so far to get back to their family in Europe. He encloses a description of the family.

In file is the copy of the statement in document .185150 and the description of the family in document .185148.

Wood informs Detter that the BRPF will try to contact the Chinese authorities and hopes that his friends can reunite with their family in Europe. She encloses the material which Detter asked to be returned.

Yen informs Schoenman that both his sons have been admitted to Hong Kong.

Schoenman replies that the BRPF is pleased to hear about Yen's sons being admitted into Hong Kong.

Yen's sons' applications were rejected in the end. His sons are now staying in Macao.

Schoenman is sorry about the delay and still wants to be informed about developments.

Sharon writes about the Chinese Trotskyists who have been in jail for some years. He would like the BRPF to help them.

Enclosed are names of well-known Trotskyists and their brief biographies.

Schoenman thanks Sharon for a letter and confirms that there is no reason for him to worry about their conversation. Schoenman is going to discuss steps that should be taken to intervene with Leonard Boudin's assistance re a Herald Tribune story on Levi.

Schoenman is sending Sharon a copy of a letter (not present) to Chou En-lai.

A friend of Worth was arrested in the Congo. He wants to know if Schoenman knows what has happened to his friend.

Schoenman informs Worth that his friend, Scotland, has been found guilty of illegally entering the Congo, but now he is released. He cannot leave the country because the National Police still hold his passport.

Farley informs Riporanu and Lipsig that BR has never spoken about Tshombe in the House of Lords. BR does not feel sympathy for Tshombe's politics, but hopes his treatment will be adequate.

Santamarina has a tremendous admiration for BR and wants to know him personally.

BR tells Santamarina that he will call his Embassy when he is in London next.

De Cordova thanks BR for the statement that he made to the press and for his offer to take further action.

Noble informs Schoenman that Tribune does not give out addresses of its correspondents but can forward letters to them.

Re Michael Callinan.

Schoenman is interested in knowing Callinan's sources when he mentioned that Castro has killed or put political opponents in concentration camps.

Callinan is sending Schoenman copies of their papers with information about Castro's murders. Hawkes mentions who their sources are.

In file is a copy, TL(TC,CAR), document .177567.

Callinan sends Schoenman a selection of publications and reports containing information about Castro. Callinan mentions that his sources are libertarian socialist and official bulletins of the Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile.

Also in file are 2 TL(TC,CAR) copies, documents .177569 and .177570.

Schoenman will be interested to see Direct Action, the Federation's periodical.

Schoenman says that all the information that Hawkes and Callinan send will be studied carefully by BR.

This cable was sent by the Chief Rabbi of Israel to request that BR influence Kosygin to grant the Jewish population freedom of religious observance, including religious instruction of their children.

BR thanks Wolters and Aronstein for their letter which enclosed information concerning Daniel and Sinyavsky. He hopes that intellectuals of all political persuasions will join in appealing their case.

This is an appeal to Khrushchev about the unjust treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union.

It is a draft enclosed by Litvinoff in his letter of same date, document .183378, record 72536.

Bronshtein explains how her son, who was separated from her at childhood, is now in Russia. After he had made arrangements to visit her in Israel, the Russian authorities refused to give him a passport. The authorities told his mother that her son did not want to visit her. Bronshtein is now asking for BR's help.

Haitin asks BR to intervene on her daughter's behalf in order to convince the Soviet authorities to permit her emigration to Israel with her two children.

Fogelman apologizes to BR for not signing the letter he sent to him a couple of days earlier (see record 70091).

Cahn asks BR to arouse the feelings of humanity in the Soviet Authorities in order to persuade them to allow Hana Pevzer and her daughter to visit them in Israel. They are the few survivors of a formerly large family which was destroyed during the Holocaust.

Aleksandrovitch hopes BR's representation will revive the "humane attitude of the Soviet authorities to the question of the re-unification of separated families" for his personal request. He would like BR to help speed up the emigration of his family to Israel.

Wood informs Aleksandrovitch that although the BRPF will do what they can to help, BR's appeals have not been very successful in the past.

Litvinoff provides a description of his enclosures: an eccentric Yiddish letter, an incomplete list of newspapers which mention BR's unpublished letter to Izvestia and a list of people who will be invited to associate with BR's letter to Soviet authorities. The invitees include Sartre, Amado, Pauling, Martin Luther King and Picasso.

The first 2 enclosures are not present.

BR solicits the recipient's signature to the enclosed appeal to Khrushchev on behalf of the Soviet Jews.

The enclosed letter to Khrushchev is a TL(CAR), document .183385, record 75523.

Litvinoff encloses an amended draft of the appeal to the Soviet authorities. He asks Schoenman to call him if he feels any additional corrections should be made.

The draft covering letter is document .183379. The appeal is .183380, record 75527; it has revisions in BR's hand.

BR solicits King's signature to the enclosed appeal to Khrushchev on behalf of Soviet Jews. He explains that efforts by men of goodwill are aided by the improvement of East-West relations, which was brought about as a result of the nuclear test-ban agreement.

The enclosed letter to Khrushchev is a TL(CAR), document .183382.

Benaiah, secretary to Litvinoff, sends the finished covering letters for the appeal to Khrushchev so that BR may sign them.

Edith Russell has noted at the top: "Letter signed and sent 11/9/63".

BR has completed a book on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sino-Indian Crisis from his point of view.

BR wants to have accurate information on individuals who have been sentenced because they were in active opposition to the régime.

BR asks Castro about the fate of certain syndicalists and anarchists. BR is concerned about Cuba's good name, and that is why he wants to know more about this situation.

This is a message to the Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba.

BR states that the attempt to oppress Cuba for internal measures is unjustifiable and that friends of international justice should protest against it.

BR has plans in regards to the Cold War and the danger of nuclear war. BR would like Castro to receive Schoenman, so that they can discuss BR's proposals.

In file is a TL(TC,CAR) copy, document .177577.

This letter consists of different statements from different people about Soviet nuclear missiles.

BR wants to know when and where Herbert Jenkins' book was published.

BR also wants Wicks' permission to quote from the correspondence in Wicks' letter for an article he will be writing.

"Not sent" although signed by BR.

BR wants to know if Torrado will receive two of his representatives to discuss the work of the BRPF. BR hopes that Torrado will be interested in the work of the BRPF.

BR encloses a brochure (not present) about the BRPF.

BR wants to know if Castro would be interested in the work of BRPF.

BR encloses a brochure (not present) about the BRPF.

Alonso has received the copy of BR's letter to President Johnson and he has forwarded it to his government.

Alonso thanks Schoenman for sending a translation of Major Castro's interview with the New York Times and the copy of BR's letter.

Alonso sends an a photostat copy of the educational record of Mustafa Alamin.

Schoenman brings to Castro's attention 2 enclosed articles. He wants Castro's opinion on the pamphlets on the nature of Western aggression in the Congo, and war of atrocity in Vietnam.

(The enclosed articles are not present.)

Schoenman could not attend the National Day celebration because he was in Wales.

Schoenman hopes to discuss matters with Alonso soon.

Lord Boyd Orr signs BR's letter to Khrushchev with great pleasure. He hopes that the weight of this letter will make Khrushchev seriously address the treatment of the Jews as it does a great disservice to Russia.

Enclosed is the letter to Khrushchev with Boyd Orr's signature.

Benaiah sends another letter for BR's signature, for Riccardo Lombardi.

Pauling sends a note saying that he is signing the appeal on behalf of Soviet Jews.

This is a note which states that Prof. Max Born called to speak with BR. He conveyed his approval of the letter to Khrushchev.

Ungaretti affirms his approval of the letter to Khrushchev.

Lombardi signs BR's letter to Khrushchev.

There is no covering letter, but the communication is meant for BR, not Khrushchev as it is addressed.

Buber asks BR to add his signature to the appeal to Khrushchev.

Thomas hesitates to sign BR's letter to Khrushchev based on the fact his sponsorship of a conference in New York may cause his stance to look dubious if he signed BR's letter. He admits that his major concerns at the present are with U.S. foreign policy and the civil rights struggle.

Litvinoff sends some letters for BR's signature. He asks Schoenman to amend the addresses if they have changed. The enclosed letter, document .183398, record 72561 asks the signatures to accept a reference to "the tragic fragmentation of families of survivors in the chaotic aftermath of the Holocaust".

BR agrees with Thomas that Khrushchev's treatment of the Jews is not the only thing wrong with the U.S.S.R. He assures Thomas that his signature to the appeal and his sponsorship of the New York conference will not contradict each other. BR hopes he will sign the appeal.

BR asks for approval of appeal amendments such as permitting the Jews full cultural lives, religious freedom and the rights of a national group, and that those who were separated from their loved ones be allowed to re-unite.

Lombardi informs BR that he agrees with the amendment on the appeal to Khrushchev, which adds that the fragmentation of Jewish families is also of great concern to the undersigned.

Lombardi uses the letterhead of the Camera dei Deputati, Rome.

Pauling informs BR that he agrees to the amendments to the appeal to Khrushchev.

Buber accepts the amendments to the appeal to Khrushchev.

Ungaretti accepts the amendments to the appeal to Khrushchev.

BR thanks the Queen for her recent kind letter and her signature on the appeal. He is anxious to acquaint her with the work of the BRPF. He asks if she will receive two of his representatives who will be in Brussels soon.

Nathan provides five suggestions by which to improve the letter to Khrushchev. He says that his signature will not depend on whether the changes he suggests are made.

Nathan's suggestions appear in the enclosed letter to E. Litvinoff, TLS(X), .183409, and TL(CAR), .183410.

Schweitzer agrees to sign the petition to Khrushchev as he is impressed with the Treaty of Moscow.

He tells BR that his thoughts go often to him and that his own health is good. He is still able to work hard directing his hospital in Lambarene.

In French. For a translation, see document .183411, record 72568.

Litvinoff thanks Nathan for his prompt reply and for his input.

Litvinoff says that the problem with correcting the letter now is that the corrections would have to be resent to the consenting signatories. He adds that this would make an already time-consuming process even longer.

BR's message is to the First Tri-Continental Conference of the Revolutionary Peoples of the World.

Agorio informs BR that a committee is mobilizing the Uruguayan people to condemn the government.

Agorio encloses the declaration of the National Preparatory Committee of the Congress Continental de Solidaridad con Cuba y por la Autodermination de los Pueblos.

Schoenman wants Alonso to spare Giutierrez Menoyos' life.

Casartelli is sending BR an invitation to the Latin American Congress of Solidarity with Cuba and the Right of the Peoples to Self-Determination.

The poet Pablo Neruda will try to deliver the invitation in person.

BR asked Farley to thank Casartelli for the invitation and to state that he is pleased to hear about the Latin-American Congress. The organization's name was misspelled.

This statement concerns the cancellation of the Conference on Solidarity with Cuba. It implies that Cuba should have allies and friends so that United States will not be so eager to threaten Cuba.

In file is a draft TL(CAR) copy, document .177594.

BR is sending two people on behalf of the BRPF to the conference in Havana.

In file is another TL(CAR) copy, document. 177596.

To the telegram to Castro on the same document, BR adds that he hopes President Goulart will permit the Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba to take place.

In Spanish. A translation is attached, document .177591. A reply is awaited to the invitation to BR to attend the Continental Solidarity Conference for Self-Determination.

(See document .177587, record 72572.)

Volta will shortly inform BR about the arrangements being made for the conference in Havana.

This is a message from BR to the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

BR opposes imperialism.

This is a "recorded message from BR to the people of Cuba".

In file is a TD(CAR) copy, 5 sheets, document. 177600.

This is an invitation card from Nunez to BR for the Celebration of the 7th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

BR is shocked by the kidnapping and probable murder of Mehdi Ben Barka. BR thinks that an international campaign must be started and wants Castro to be part of it.

Tana de Gamez would like BR to read his new book, The Yoke and the Star.

Schoenman would like Gamez to help the BRPF with their proposed War Crimes Tribunal.

Schoenman is sending Gamez some literature separately.

BR sends Castro documents on the International War Crimes Tribunal. BR would like to send a representative to discuss matters concerning the Tribunal.

In file is a TL(CAR) copy, document. 177606.

Schoenman encloses a letter that BR sent to Castro on November 26, 1966; see record 72587.

Schoenman would like Nunez to forward an enclosed letter to the Prime Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Lyzhin informs BR that his letter to N.S. Khrushchev and his reply were publicized on the radio.

Lyzhin feels that BR's understanding and belief of the matter of the woman citizen he wrote about in the letter are not accurate, and that BR's feelings are based on false information. He suggests that BR read the works of Karl Marx to get a good understanding of the matter.

In file is the original Russian version, document .183472.

Farley gives Nunez BR's address and directions to his place. Nunez is meeting BR for tea on January 20.

BR would like Nunez to arrange for 2 or 3 of his associates to visit Cuba to discuss some proposals with the government. He is glad she was able to visit him "a few days ago".

"Not sent".

BR encloses a letter to Castro which he wants Grinan to forward to Havana.

In file are two TL(CAR) copies, documents .177612 and .177612a.

This is a cable to BR from Havana. It supports Vietnam and is interested in participating in the IWCT.

The reply from BR to the Tricontinental Committee, also on this sheet, is at record 74190.

BR is anxious about the International War Crimes Tribunal and hopes that Cuba can be a part of it.

BR is sending 2 representatives of the Tribunal to Cuba to speak to Castro about some serious plans.

In file are typed copies, documents .177615-.177618.

BR thanks Castro for his "generous words" during his speech on the anniversary of the Cuban revolution. (Castro said: "(Vietnam—ed.) has won the sympathy of the world, as well as the minds of thinking people. (Imperialism—ed.) has incurred the most radical pronouncements from Bertrand Russell and Paul Sartre (applause) and hundreds of intellectuals in Europe, Latin America, and the entire world." (The entire speech is at: http://lanic.texas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1967/19670102.)

This is a cable sent to Cardenas, Tri-Continental Committee Support of Vietnam, Havana, Cuba.

BR agrees to send representatives to the Tribunal and to give evidence to the Tribunal on the question of U.S. aggression in Vietnam.

BR regrets that the National Liberation Front and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam could not sign the appeal for the World Committee for Vietnam.

BR's next step is to inform Ho Chi Minh, Pham Van Dong and Nguyen Huu Tho of his intention to establish the World Committee on May 1.

Schoenman thanks Nathan for his signed appeal to Khrushchev.

Schoenman mentions that his late acknowledgement is due to the fact that he was in France obtaining promises from Chagall and Picasso to donate art to the BRPF.

BR expresses his regret that Mendès France will not sign the appeal. He informs him that his political co-signors will likely include Nehru. BR encloses information on the BRPF.

Also in file: another TL(CAR), document .183416.

The Plas Penrhyn address is inserted in full capitals.

BR sends Johnson a copy of the appeal to Khrushchev and solicits his signature. The enclosure is not present.

The telegram informs the BRPF: "Regret cannot find letter following = Hewlett Johnson".

Johnson declines BR's request to sign the appeal on the grounds that Jews do have complete freedom to bake unleavened bread. He says his sources for his facts are both the Moscow Chief Rabbi and the Soviet Ambassador in the U.K. He further states that "anti-Soviet propaganda will not help Russian Jews".

BR solicits Dolci's signature for the appeal to Khrushchev. He encloses a list of people who have already signed, document .183421.