Sen. Jacob Javits, New York Republican, said today he saw little value in the Soviet Union’s proposal for a four-power guarantee of peace in the Middle East. Addressing a testimonial dinner for Louis L. Levine, a deputy commissioner of industrial labor relations of the New York State Department of Labor, Sen. Javits asked: “To what avail is a four-power guarantee when one of these powers, the Soviet Union, continues to rearm its radical Arab clients to a level beyond that which existed before the June war; when another of the powers, France, refuses to deliver jet aircraft to Israel for which payment has been made; when still another of the powers, Great Britain, is engaged in pulling back from her traditional role east of Suez and is unwilling to assume new responsibilities; and when the United States appears reluctant to sell Israel sorely needed jets?”
The dinner was sponsored by the Greater New York Trade Unionists for Labor Israel. Proceeds, expected to reach $100,000, will go toward establishment of a cultural center in Yad Mordecai, a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
The chairman of the American Zionist Council today urged the U.S. to reject the Soviet proposal which he termed “a reiteration of the intransigent Arab position.” Rabbi Israel Miller issued his plea in an address at the installation of officers of Bnai Zion, the American Zionist fraternal organization. Raymond M. Patt, of Brooklyn, was installed as Bnai Zion president for a second term.
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