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delay and will have the benefit of all the safeguards which the Con-
stitution and the laws of the US guarantee to persons charged with crime
in the courts of the US. 8
HUMAN RIGHTS
Restrictions on Human Rights in the Soviet Blos Jack B, Tate,
Acting Legal Adviser of the Department, in an address of May 26 expressed
profound regret that one important group of nations, headed by the Soviet
Union, had refused to accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
adopted by the General Assembly at Paris in December 1948. Pointing
out differences between the countries of the Western world and those of
the Soviet bloc, he said that in the Soviet system there is no such thing
as individual human rights in the sense in which the Western world
understands this term., He said that Soviet restrictions on human free-
dom have even been found lurking in the symphonic notes of Shostakovich
and in the study of genetics. 9
Soviet Wives of Foreign Citizens. -In a brief summary published in
May, the Department of State described Mrs. Roosevelt's participation
in the General Assembly debate on April 25 regarding the resolution
condemning measures which prevent or coerce wives of citizens of other
nationalities from leaving their country to join their husbands and
calling upon the USSR to withdraw such measures. Mrs. Roosevelt
declared that "unhappy young people" were forced to remain against their
will in the USSR "under circumstances, we are informed, which have given
them reason to fear for their personal security". 10
Soviet Satellites: Violation of Human Rights.- At a press con-
ARCMIVES "NATIONAL ROCORDS AND
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SERVICEN
ference of May 4 Secretary Acheson referred to (1) the US notes of
April 2 to Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania charging violation of their
respective peace=treaty obligations concerning human rights and funda-
mental freedoms, and (2) the replies of those countries, accusing the
US of domestic interference; and he announced that the Department is
consulting interested signatory governments with a view to proceeding
under the treaty provisions for the settlement of disputes concerning
the execution and interpretation of the treaties. A UN General Assembly
resolution noting the charges made against Hungary and Rumania was
approved on April 30 by a vote of 34 to 6, Mr. Acheson termed this
vote an "indication of general support throughout the world for the
action we have initiated". 11
BBulletin, May 15, p. 636.
PPress release 383, May 23.
10 Bulletin, May 1, p. 561,
11
Bulletin, May 15, p. 611.
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