the hope that the French Government would recognize the state of Israel before the U.N. General Assembly meets here next month was voiced here today at a press conference by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, who is en route to Tel Aviv to attend the forthcoming sessions of the Zionist Actions Committee.
Asserting that “the whole problem of the Arab refugees is a sad by-product of the over-all problem, “Dr. Silver charged that the majority of the displaced Arabs now living in countries along Israel’s frontiers were encouraged and aided to leave the Jewish state by the British.
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