The 70th annual convention of B’rith Abraham, National Fraternal Order, which opened yesterday at the Concord Hotel here, today adopted a resolution condemning the Soviet Government for supplying Egypt with submarines that may be used to impede the passage of Israeli ships to Israel’s Red Sea port of Elath.
The four-day conclave, attended by 1,000 delegates and guests representing 300 B’rith Abraham lodges in all parts of the U.S. was officially opened by Grand Master Irving Katcher who warned that the Soviet Government’s action may touch off a new crisis of to gravest sort in the Middle East. The resolution denouncing the Soviet action went on to praise President Eisenhower for his “unequivocal declaration” that the Gulf of Akaba is an international waterway and that no nation has the right to prevent free and innocent passage through it.
This morning’s session of the convention heard an address by N. Y. State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, who cited Israel’s adherence to the Eisenhower Doctrine and declared that “Israel, to all intents and purposes, has become part and parcel, politically speaking, of the Western World,” Mr. Lefkowitz said that Israel can no longer be abstracted from the overall problems of the Middle East nor can anyone deal with America’s security position in the Middle East and ignore Israel.
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