Israel circles welcome President Eisenhower’s statement to Congress yesterday that the United States should continue to work with the governments and peoples of Israel and the Arab states “to improve their economic status and accelerate their progress toward lasting peace between them.”
A high Israel source described this as a happy formulation of the approach whereby United States aid programs could best promote constructive objectives in the area. The same source indicated that when the record of the fiscal year 1954-55 comes to be appraised it will emerge as a period of substantial cooperation between the two governments in economic aid and supply problems.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Operations Administration announced authorizations for Israel of $1,300,000 to finance purchase of bread grains and grain sorghum. Other authorizations for Israel were $225,000 in iron and steel mill materials and $100,000 in hardwood logs.
The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO reported today that UNESCO has sent Prof. Leon Carnovsky of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago on a three-month mission to Israel. He will advise the Israel Government on the establishment of a training program for librarians at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He served on a U.S. education mission to Japan in 1946.
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