The United States and other Western Powers must insist at the United Nations that the Arab states end their contention that “a state of war” Still exists between the Arab countries and Israel, Thomas K.Finletter.former Secretary of the Air Force, declared here tonight.
Mr. Finletter made the statement at the opening dinner of the three-day convention assembled here at the Concord Hotel by the National Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs. “Western leadership.” said Mr.Finletter, “has failed in that it has not insisted on an end to the state of war now being insisted upon by the Arab countries against the State of Israel.”
He urged that the U.S.A. and its Western allies not only insist at the United Nations for an end to this “state of war,” but also act at the UN “against the interference with traffic in the Suez Canal and against the other menaces of the cold war currently being carried on by Egypt and by other neighbors of Israel,”
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