A resolution calling on Secretary of State Dean Rusk to give the House of Representatives “full and complete information with respect to the motivation and underlying reasons” for U.S. sponsorship and support of the United Nations Security Council censure of Israel was introduced in the House today by Democratic Congressman Leonard Farbstein of New York.
Rep. Farbstein, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked that the State Department supply the requested information “at the earliest practicable date.” In a speech on the House floor introducing his resolution, he was sharply critical of yesterday’s censure vote and the role played by the U. S. delegation in passing it.
Rep. Farbstein also questioned U.S. support of the censure action “despite clear evidence that Syrian guns had fired first upon Israeli shipping in clearly recognized Israeli waters, ” charging that the Syrian shooting continued “after Israel’s complaints to the UN Truce Supervisors went unheeded.” He characterized the censure vote as “a unilateral condemnation which serves as an open invitation to Syria to resume its harassment of Israeli shipping.”
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