The developments which are now taking place in the United Nations Security Council with regard to the Arab-Israel issue were outlined to President Eisenhower this week-end by Henry-Cabot Lodge, Jr., head of the American delegation to the United Nations.
It is believed that Mr. Lodge reported to the President on the opposition which the Arabs are now displaying at the Security Council against the British resolution, seeking to further the reduction in Arab-Israel tensions which was brought about by the recent visit to the Middle East of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The role which the Soviet delegation at the UN is playing in supporting the Arab defiance of the British resolution, which has received the support of the United States and France, was also believed to have been brought to President Eisenhower’s attention by Mr. Lodge.
In the meantime, it was learned today that leaders of the Republican Party intend to ask President Eisenhower to publicly denounce the barring of American Jewish service men from U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia. The President has so far not answered letters sent to him by the American Veterans Committee, and by Jewish organization asking him for a clear cut statement on the “un-American and discriminatory policy with regard to Jewish GIs.
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