A delegation of top Argentine Jewish leaders visited the British and French Ambassadors here yesterday to seek the assistance of their governments in ending tension and bringing peace to the Middle East. The delegation consisted of members of the DAIA, Argentine Jewry’s central representative organization, and the Zionist Central Council.
The delegation first called on British-Ambassador Sir Francis Evans to express concern over the sale of armaments to Arab countries. The second call was on French Ambassador Philip Baudet to ask that Paris intervene with both parties in behalf of direct peace talks. Both interviews were very cordial, the delegation members reported. The Argentine press, meanwhile, has expressed sympathy for Israel’s cause and for its efforts in behalf of peace.
The four principal Argentinian non-Zionist and Zionist organizations have issued a statement here strongly criticizing the anti-Israel remarks made by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev in an address before the Supreme Soviet. At a press conference here, the organizations declared their hope that the democratic conscience of the free world would mobilize against what they termed “this new historical forgery.”
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