Mrs. Max N. Matzkin, chairman of the executive committee of the American Zionist Federation, expressed her “shock and protest” in a telegram to Lord Kromer, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington, over the British government’s decision to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to set up an office in London. She urged that the decision be immediately rescinded.
“In view of the record of the terrorist organization, which has carried out the massacre of innocent men, women and children,” she charged in the wire, “British approval of legitimatizing the Arab Fatah will rightly be interpreted as giving the green light to international outlaws to whom human life is cheap.” The telegram went on to assert that Britain’s decision “condones both air piracy and genocide at a time when the entire civilized world is seeking a solution to such international epidemics.”
In requesting the Ambassador to convey these views to his government, Mrs. Matzkin warned that “the establishment of PLO offices in London could undermine the cordial relations which exist between the American and British people, and could harm travel and trade interests in Britain.”
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