President Eisenhower, at his press conference today, refused to state whether he intends to take up with King Saud questions concerning religious discrimination against American citizens by Saudi Arabia.
The President said he was not going to be discourteous to the King by saying in advance what he would discuss. But, said the President, he had in the past pleaded for equal treatment for all Americans. He deplored any discourtesy shown a visitor like King Saud of Saudi Arabia. The official reception for the King did not necessarily imply any approval of internal actions within another country, the President said.
(In a statement made public today, the American Christian Palestine Committee warned the United States against basing its “hopes for peace in the Middle East on the cooperation of the Saudi Arabian Government. Referring to the White House explanation of the purpose of King Saud’s visit as being ” the pursuit of peace,” the Committee charged that instead ”Saudi Arabia had long been a primary factor of instability in the Middle East.”
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