A total of 131 Jews have been arrested by the Egyptian authorities and 400 to 500 have been told to leave the country Alfred Lilienthal, executive chairman of the American committee for Security and Justice in the Middle East, which is pro-Arab, told a press conference in Cairo this week-end, it was reported here by Reuters, Mr. Lilienthal further declared that 125 firms owned by Jews in Egypt had been sequestered, affecting 524 Jews while many Jews have been discharged from their jobs.
Mr. Lilienthal, a former leader of the American Council for Judaism, said that he had sent the information he has obtained in Egypt to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and has asked the Secretary to see if he could get a Congressional commission to investigate the true situation of the Jews in Egypt.
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