LABOR ZIONISTS APPEAL TO WASHINGTON NOT TO ARM EGYPT
An urgent appeal to the government of the United States demanding that it take action on Egypt’s continuing blockade of the Suez Canal against Israel-bound shipping, and requesting that the .U.S. withhold arms grants from Egypt unless that country agrees firmly not to use such arms aggressively against Israel, was sent to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today by Dr. Herman Seidel, chairman of the Central Committee of the Labor Zionist Organization of America.
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