President Johnson and the State Department were commended in the Senate today for rebuking the 13 Arab ambassadors’ public protest over Prime Minister Eshkol’s visit to this country.
Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat, in his praise of the State Department and White House condemnation of the Arab protest, stated: “I am pleased to note that the President again saw fit to remind the world that the United States will fulfill its commitments; to prevent aggression or to prevent a change of boundaries by force in the Middle East. “
Alaskan Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, speaking on the Senate floor, called the Arab protest an “exhibit of complete arrogance on the part of these Arab embassies in trying to dictate to the United States whom the President may invite to this country officially, “
A warning against Soviet-encouraged Arab attacks upon Israel was issued on the Senate floor by Sen. Thomas Dodd, Connecticut Democrat today. He stated that the situation called for a most firm U.S. reiteration of its policy not to tolerate any aggression by one Near Eastern country against a neighbor. He also urged U. S. warnings to Prime Minister Khrushchev that both the expansion of East-West trade and the credits to the Soviet Union “will be heavily dependent on whether the Soviet Government acts to encourage or to discourage military aggression by Nasser and other Arab expansionists.
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