Sen, Herbert H. Lehman scored the State Department today for having taken no action about the Saudi Arabian ban on Jewish servicemen at the Dhahran air base in Saudi Arabia and its discrimination against American Jewish businessmen. At the same time, Sen. Lehman called for the United States to study the possibility of breaking off commercial relations with the Arab state as a means of breaking the ban.
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