Chairman Hubert H. Humphrey of the Senate Foreign Relations Near-Eastern subcommittee today called for reconsideration by the Administration of the severance of economic grant to Israel. Sen. Humphrey, a Minnesota Democrat, spoke before a Jewish National Fund function.
“Israel has not received a single penny of grant military aid, thus it would be wrong from every standpoint to end our great economic aid to Israel now,” he said. He expressed hope that the United States would continue grant aid to Israel and that it actually should be increased. He termed the whole aid program inadequate.
Sen. Humphrey said countries like Israel which he singled out as “crucial” to the free world must get enlarged American economic support because dollars there work for freedom. The Senator charged that the Soviet Union was cleverly exploiting Arab hostility to Israel.
Commenting on a cut-off of economic grant aid to Israel in the fiscal year 1960, Sen. Humphrey said: “I hope the Administration will reconsider any such proposal.”
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