The number of Congressional candidates signing pledges to oppose United States arming of the Arab states now totals 100 and is expected to increase substantially before the end of the week, it was learned here today. Two additional candidates for the Senate who have pledged themselves against the Administration’s policy of arming the Arabs are Samuel W. Yorty, Democrat of California, and John H. Carroll, Democrat of Colorado.
A previous listing by the American Zionist Council for Public Affairs last week showed that 25 candidates had signed the pledge. The new returns list 75 more. They include 66 Democrats, 31 Republicans, and others representing minor parties. Replies are still coming in and are expected until election day.
Democrats included in the 75 most recent respondents are Harold F. Taggart, Carl Sugar, Frank P. O’Sullivan, Chet Holifield, Eugene Radding, Clyde Doyle, George Arnold, John G. Sobieski, S. Mark Hague, and James Roosevelt, California; L.S. Adams, Arizonia; Byron G. Rogers, Lacy Wilkinson and Alva Adams, Colorado; Charles E. Bennett, Florida; John Brademas and Charles H. Boswell, Indiana; Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Martin S. Fox, New Jersey; Ernest Greenwood, Lester Holtzman, James J. Delaney, Victor Anfuso, Edna Kelly, Thomas A. Dent, Emanuel Celler, Abraham Multer, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., William Brennan, Herbert Zelenko, Sidney A. Fine, Isadore Dollinger, Charles Buckley, Mrs. Julia Crews, John R. Harold, Reuben Brodsky, and George W. Cooke, New York.
Also, F. Ertel Carlyle, North Carolina; William A. Barrett, William T. Granahan, James, A. Byrne, Earl Chudoff, William J. Green, Jr., Alexander Hemphill, O. Arthur Cappiello, Joseph C. Mansfield, Thomas E. Morgan, Charles J. Chamberlin, Herman P. Eberharter, William G. Foley and Vera Buchanan, Pennsylvania; and Hugh Mitchell, Washington.
Republicans adding their names are John Rhodes, Arizona; J. Arthur Younger, Robert H. Finch and Theodore R. Owings, California; Mrs. Allan Harris and Edgar Chenoweth, Colorado; Gregory M. Pillon, Michigan; Robert W. Kean, New Jersey; Frederic R. Coudert, Steven B. Derounian, Philip Myer, Kenneth B. Keating and Harold C. Ostertag, New York; Albert A. Ciardi, Charles H. Sporkin, W. Beverly Carter, Jr., Hugh D. Scott, Jr., James G. Fulton, Guy C. Read, Robert J. Corbett and David J, Smith, Pennsylvania.
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