Declaring that to ignore “Egypt’s military build-up, plus Nasser’s insatiable ambition to rule over all Arab governments is to turn our backs upon reality,” Congressman Emanuel Celler, Democrat of New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned here that tension in the Middle East brooks ill for the western world.”
Congressman Celler was principal speaker at a testimonial dinner tendered in honor of B. Sumner Gruzen, president of American Technion Society, a nationwide group that provides financial and technical assistance to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the oldest institution of higher learning in Israel.
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