Maxwell Abbell, chairman of the President’s Committee on Government Employment Policy and an active Jewish communal leader, released today an exchange of correspondence with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with respect to various forms of discrimination practiced by Saudi Arabia particularly, and also by other Arab countries against Americans of the Jewish faith.
Mr. Abbell stressed the President’s clear and forceful stand against any form of discrimination because of race, color, creed or country of national origin, and urged the Secretary of State to enforce this policy as related to discrimination in Arab countries against the Jews, discriminations which to some extent were being imported into the United States.
Secretary of State Dulles, in his reply, indicated that he was in complete agreement with both the President’s opposition to all forms of discrimination based on race, color, creed or country of national origin and Mr. Abbell’s plea that the President’s policy must be vigorously pursued in the Arab countries which practiced such discrimination against members of the Jewish faith.
“I want to reaffirm to you, as clearly and as forcefully as I can state it, that it has been and will continue to be the policy of this administration to seize every opportunity to express such views and take such actions as we believe will constructively contribute to the eventual elimination of the kind of discrimination to which you refer,” Mr. Dulles wrote.
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