British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s plea for peace in the Middle East–which he made in an address before the United States Congress last week–should have been addressed not only to Israel "but also–and primarily–to the Arab states," Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress, told a joint meeting of the national executive and administrative committees of the A.J.C. last night. Dr. Goldstein asserted that the Jews of the world will appreciate the friendly attitude expressed by the Prime Minister toward Israel in his address.
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, World Jewish Congress consultant to the United Nations, told the meeting that the struggle for civil rights and human-equality in the U.S. is of "immense importance" to the success of American foreign policy. Dr. Perlzweig, who has just returned from a trip to India and Southeast Asia, reported that "a single bomb thrown in Florida wipes out many months of devoted work by U.S. representatives" laboring to convince millions of people in non-Communist Asian countries that "America is the protagonist of justice and freedom."
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