Opposition to training in the United States of military officers from the Arab states that broke relations with this country was expressed here today by Representative Bob Wilson, California Republican and member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Addressing the annual convention of the Jewish War Veterans of America, Congressman Wilson said that he would continue to seek the expulsion of Arab military officers still under training here. “If any nation is entitled to training assistance and the sale of military supplies, it is Israel, which stood single handed against the Communist-equipped and Communist-trained Arab onslaught,” he declared.
(The Los Angeles Examiner, California’s largest daily, also expressed opposition to the State Department’s policy of continuing to provide military training to officers from the Arab states which had broken their U.S. diplomatic ties. An editorial requested a full probe by the House Armed Services Committee. “To continue to give U.S. military training to personnel from countries hostile to us and allied with Moscow constitutes a flagrant violation of our national security,” the editorial said.)
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States voted last night to prohibit its 100,000 members and 750 posts from participating in any patriotic observance with members of the John Birch Society. Malcolm Tarlov, national commander of the veterans, warned the 2,000 delegates that the “alarming acceptance by respectable groups of the John Birch Society represents a threat from the right and must be reversed at once.” He did not identify these groups.
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