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Truman Role in Establishment of Israel Lauded by Israeli Representative to Washington

September 10, 1948
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The role of President Truman in helping the establishment of Israel and its achieving international recognition was lauded here last night by Eliahu Epstein, Israeli special representative to Washington, who is ###w here engaging in high level policy conferences with Foreign Office officials.

Speaking at a press conference, Epstein said that Israel is going to the Forthcoming U.N. General Assembly session in Paris with “something tangible,” and that “due to its stand” it is also “more sovereign and firmly established.” He praised the role of American Jewry, which together with the exploits of the Israeli Army, he said, brought about U.S. de facto recognition. The United States, he declared, is interested in peace in the Middle East and therefore in the continuance the truce, but it knows that peace rather than a truce is the lasting solution.

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