The Eisenhower Administration was urged to change its Middle East policy and to make fundamental revision of its Federal employee security program at a meeting here last night of the national executive committee of the American Jewish Congress. More than 100 AJC leaders from various states attended.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, AJA president, declared that the Administration’s promised “new look” at its Middle East policy was long overdue. He charged that in stead of re-evaluating its policy in this region during the past two months, as reported, the Administration has “more intensively pursued” its “present unjust and unwise program.” He note that while Arab states have been armed and brought into alliances and security pacts recently, Israel has been given no place in such arrangements.
Herman L. Weisman, chairman of the AJC Commission on Law and Social Action, assailed the Federal security program as it relates to government employees as “prodigious in its injustices, clumsy and confused in its operations and wasteful of talents and minds of the highest order.” Referring to such cases as the Abraham Chasanow, the Fort Monmouth and Wolf Ladejinsky affairs, Mr. Weisman said: “We need a complete rethinking of our basic premises and not merely a reshuffling of minor officials.”
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