The American Council for Judaism today announced that Lessing J. Rosenwald, its president, had sent a letter to President Eisenhower expressing “appreciation” for the paragraph in Eisenhower’s State of the Union message stating that “in the Middle East, where tensions and serious problems exist, we will show sympathetic and impartial friendship.”
Mr. Rosenwald pointed out that his organization has, for the more than ten years of its existence, “advocated an American policy in the Middle East designed to reflect the interests of all the American people and to serve all the people of the area impartially and equitably, for the advancement of stability among the Middle East people themselves and of world peace.”
“The partiality of Zionism for one state in the Middle East area,” Mr. Rosenwald said, “does not and cannot represent the viewpoint of all Americans of Jewish faith.” He recalled that he had expressed similar support of the American policy of “impartiality” in the Middle East announced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on June 1, 1953.
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