A bi-partisan group of 51 members of the House today submitted a petition to Secretary of State Dean Acheson to intercede with the British Government to halt the shipping of arms to Arab countries. The signatories included House Majority Leader John McCormack.
The Congressmen expressed the hope that the Secretary of State will take up the arms issue with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin when he confers with him later this month in London. Mr. Acheson was urged to ask Sec. Bevin to discontinue shipping arms to the Arab countries until they sign a peace pact with Israel.
Mr. Acheson was asked to determine: to what extent is Great Britain actually shipping arms under treaty arrangements to Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, or other Arab states; how such shipments have been paid for; what supervision is being maintained over the disposition and use of such armament and whether supplying of such arms is either directly or indirectly facilitated by the settlement of Great Britain’s lend-lease account, by the nutual defense assistance program, or by E.C.A. aid.
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