Youssef Hilmi, secretary of the Egyptian Peace Movement and a member of the World Peace Council, today appealed in a Yiddish broadcast from Bucharest to the Israelis for a combined effort to settle the Arab-Israel dispute Mr. Hilmi suggested that the effort be launched with a conference of the Arab countries Israel, the countries which were represented at the recent Bandung Conference and the Big Four Powers.
The purpose of this conference, according to the broadcast, would be to work out a solution providing for the right of Israel to an independent, democratic state and a “similar right for the Arab people.” Hilmi was said to have asserted that “No problem can be solved by war; let’s cooperate to achieve peace.”
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