The United States Army is respecting the anti-Jewish policy of the Saudi Arabian Government, it was indicated today by a spokesman for the Department of Defense. Asked if American Jews are being employed by the U.S. Army for work now underway on bases in that country, the spokesman said: “We are endeavoring not to recruit construction workers for Saudi Arabia who would not be admitted to the country.”
“However,” the army spokesman added, “there is no screening of workers for other Mediterranean areas.” Senate testimony recently revealed that New York State refused to cooperate with an Army request to separate workers on a religious basis. Because New York failed to screen out Jews, an estimated 20,000 workers of all faiths were by-passed. The Department of Defense said today that “18 percent of those recruited for work in the Mediterranean area were hired out of New York State without regard to religion or race.”
A request that “we should guarantee to the Arab and Moslem world that Israel is not going to be any further threat to the Arabic League of Nations” was made before Congress today by Rep. W.J. Bryan Dorn, of South Carolina, who described the present American policy on the Middle East as “dangerous.” Rep. Dorn said we should back Israel, but that we should reassure the Arabs because otherwise the Arabs might join with the Soviet bloc of nations.
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