“Despite the tripartite declaration of 1952, nothing has been done to make it clear to Israel’s neighboring enemies that the Western Powers are determined to ensure Israel’s survival no matter what the cost, nor have the United Nations contributed much to that end,” Lord Russell of Liverpool declared at a press conference here today.
The celebrated British statesman, and former chief legal advisor to the British Commander-in-Chief in Germany during the Nuremberg trial, pointed out that “Soviet infiltration into the Middle East–which the French and British hoped last November to halt–has started again, and Syria is now little less than another Russian satellite.” He warned that “the sands of time are running out” and stressed that “it is high time that the Western Powers made it clear that any attack upon Israel will be met with immediate and decisive intervention.”
Lord Russell, who arrived in this country today to address the 60th convention of the Zionist Organization of America which opens this week-end in New York, lauded Israel’s achievements. “I am not the first of my family to espouse the Zionist cause,” he said. My grandfather, the first Lord Russell of Liverpool, one of the leading English journalists during the last 20 years of the nineteenth century and the first 20 years of this century, when Sir Edward Russell was one of the first Gentile supporters of the Zionist movement in England, and took a not inconspicuous part in bring about the Balfour Declaration of 1917.”
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