Queen Elizabeth and members of the Belgian Government were cheered when they appeared at a mass rally here celebrating Israel’s Independence Day. Camille Huysmans, Belgian elder statesmen who headed a Belgian Parliamentary delegation that recently visited Israel, told the rally that he believed that there would be no war in the Middle East.
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