Twenty-seven Congressmen today announced themselves in favor of curtailing American funds to Britain which the latter may use to injure Israel. The legislators supported a resolution by Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois calling on Congress to take action to prevent the diversion of European Recovery Program funds by Britain to the Arab states now warring on Israel.
A State Department spokesman today told newsmen that the detention of 41 American citizens by Lebanon after their seizure aboard an American vessel in Beirut harbor was still under discussion between the two governments and no decision had been reached yet whether to take the matter to the International Court of Justice. Labelling the Lebanese action “illegal,” the spokesman said that the agreement of the 41 Americans, all Jews, to return to the U.S. rather than remain interned in Lebanon did not alter the legal aspect of the problem.
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