Governor Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland left here yesterday for a two-week visit to Israel, where he plans to study that nation’s use of American economic aid because “Israel is a vital factor in implementing our national policy of strengthening the forces of democracy.”
“It is my belief,” he said in a statement issued on his departure, ‘that American aid to Israel, in the businesslike fashion represented by the Israel bond issue, is thoroughly consistent with the tenor of our entire foreign assistance program. Israel is a young and promising democracy, and although it needs our help today, I know that America will ultimately be richly recompensed. I regard continued economic aid to Israel as a vital factor in implementing our national policy of strengthening the forces of democracy wherever they exist. Our investment in Israel is particularly sound because it is democracy’s foremost advocate in the Middle East.”
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