The Department of State today announced the appointment of a leading supporter of the Arab position on the Palestine issue to be director of the U. S. Foreign Service Institute. He is Harold B. Hoskins, president of the board of the American University of Beirut, whose most recent State Department assignment was as consultant to the Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs.
Mr. Hoskins was a member of the executive committee of the “Holyland Emergency Liaison Program,” an anti-Zionist propaganda organization which lost support in Congress when Gov. Christian Herter of Massachusetts described it as a group whose “political objectives” were contrary to the welfare of Israel.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles attended the ceremony which took place today when Mr. Hoskins was administered the oath of office. Mr. Hoskins will be in charge of the training of State Department employees and foreign service personnel. His appointment, the Department said, is in keeping with proposals made by a special committee formed at the request of Secretary Dulles to give career officers the proper orientation.
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