Concern was expressed today among leading Jews here over the continued shipment of British arms to the Arab states. A resolution adopted by the Israel Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews emphasized that the “continued supply of arms from Britain and elsewhere to the Arab countries threatens a rerewel of an armed attack against Israel.”
The Committee presented a request to the Board of Deputies to draw the attention of the British Government “to the alarming implications for the peace of the world inherent in the continued rearmament of the Arab states.” The Board was also asked to point out to the government the fact that the Arab states “refuse to enter into peace talks with Israel and continue their propaganda for a second round of war.”
A decision to establish an Anglo-Israel Chamber of Commerce was unanimously adopted here today at a meeting of representatives of industrial, commercial, banking, shipping and insurance firms interested in wider commercial relations between this country and Israel. The meeting was held at the Israel legation under the chairmanship of M.R. Kidron, charge d’affaires.
A. Shinner, economic counsellor to the legation, told the meeting that the Jewish state would have 20,000,000 pounds available this year for trade in the sterling area, of which 80 percent would be apent for purchases from the United Kingdom.
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