Senator Estes Kefauver, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, has urged the United States Government to take a firm stand in the question of bringing about an Arab-Israeli peace.
In a prepared speech read for him last night at a dinner-forum sponsored by The Nation magazine at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Sen. Kefauver said that “the Western world needs both Israel and the Arab world. If there is a price on peace in the Middle East that price must be no less than security.”
Israeli Minister David Gotein said that “Israel can flourish in the Middle East.” Dr. Clarence E. Pickett, honorary secretary of the American Friends Service Committee and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, told the guests that Arab-Israel peace will come in piece-meal fashion. The first and most important step, he said, is the settlement of the Arab refugee property claims in Israel. The second is the permanent settlement of boundaries, and the third step is the resettlement of Palestine Arab refugees, he declared.
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