An appeal to the United States Government to now offer the State of Israel “a similar alliance, a similar guarantee of security, and similar military aid” as offered to Iraq and other Arab countries was voiced in the House today by Rep. Irwin D. Davidson of New York.
Rep. Davidson said that the Turkish-Iraqi pact “while gratifying in that it strengthens our wall of containment against the Soviet menace,” contains “nothing to allay the concerns of the State of Israel with regard to the unwavering hostility of the Arab states, to their professed resolve to attack Israel sooner or later, and to the imbalance being created by our new alliances with Arab states and our offer of aid to them.”
He added that “while we ally ourselves with Iraq and aid her with arms and equipment–and I understand that we are ready to do the same with regard to other Arab states as soon as they are ready–we should now urgently see to it that no imbalance is being created by this policy of ours.”
The State Department declared today that “no decision has been taken by the United States to adhere to the Turkish-Iraqi pact.” The statement was made in connection with reports from London which stated that the United States and Britain would join the alliance. The London report, credited to informed sources, stated that the U. S. will be invited, and will agree, to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance within a few months.
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