Baron Edmond de Rothschild has decided to set up here a Middle Eastern Peace Foundation to seek to bring Israel and the Arabs together and to reduce tension between the Arabs and the West. The baron has named Saul Friedlander, author of a recent controversial study of Pope Pius, as the foundation’s first director.
To emphasize his intention not to contribute to the current French hostility to Anglo-Saxons, he is now seeking an American or British deputy director. He indicated he hoped to interest leading British and Americans in the foundation and said he had called a meeting of British opposite numbers in Geneva for later this month for that purpose.
The baron flew to Jerusalem for the International Advisory conference called by Premier Levi Eshkol and planned to discuss the Foundation with Lord Sieff of Brimpton and British Jewish industrialist Charles Clore.
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