Congressman Barratt O’Hara of Illinois told the House today that United States aid should be denied “to countries that seek to enforce upon us their own discriminations along the lines of religion, race aid station.”
“A sense of international morality, as well as a due regard for our national dignity” makes such action mandatory, the Congressman said. His remarks were made in reference to a recent Jewish Telegraphic Agency report–which he asked to be inserted in the Congressional Record– quoting Rep. Leonard Farbstein of New York as being displeased with the State Department’s handling of protests in connection with U.S. aid to Arab countries which impose travel and trade bans on American Jews and Jewish-owned firms.
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