Former Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg called today for observance of the cease-fire in the Middle East so that peace can be attained. He told a meeting here in honor of Minister of Labor Yosef Almogi that the first requisite for a peaceful settlement was “for all parties to lay down their arms.” He said the Arab-Israeli cease-fire after the Six-Day War had been accepted by all parties but “today it is regrettably being violated and not violated at the initiative of Israel.” Theodore W. Kheel, noted American labor conciliator and head of the American Foundation on Automation and Employment, was chairman of the function held at Automation House. He presented to Mr. Almogi two signed copies of the report of the proceedings of the British-American-Israeli conference on automation held in Jerusalem last April. One of the copies was for Prime Minister Golda Meir who received the visiting delegates during the conference.
The former American envoy to the United Nations said that Israel was facing the tremendous problem of “living and making progress while trying to maintain its security.” He declared that “a state dedicated to social and economic justice, as is Israel, should not have to be a military state. That progress must not be stopped is the principle ruling in Israel.” In his reply. Mr. Almogi declared that Israel is entering the era of industrialization in which, he said, “automation may be decisive.”
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