Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon urged the United States today to join forces with Britain and France in pressing for the use of United Nation sanctions “toward the end of insisting that the countries of the Middle East stop their armament race and discontinue their preparations for a possible preventative war.” He asked the U.S. Government to make clear that “we are not going to permit our armaments to be used to threaten or coerce the State of Israel into relinquishing its freedom or territorial right.”
Senator Morse told 1,800 persons at a “Purim Salute to Israel” here that United States foreign policy in the Middle East “is not winning us friends among the people of those areas in the world in which we must win the fight for freedom in the decades ahead.” “I fear,” he added, “that we are playing right into the hands of vicious Communist propaganda when we send arms to Saudi Arabia, to Iraq, to Egypt and to other Middle East countries who knowingly are threatening the security of Israel.” Sen. Morse characterized the Dulles foreign policy in the Middle East as “one of expediency and compromise of principle.”
Expressing the thanks of the government and of the people of Israel for the aid that has been provided by the United States. Dr. Burg told the meeting that “the political and economic aid of the American government together with the brotherly love of American Jewry and of men of good will of every faith” has made it possible for the young nation to make fast gains in the nearly eight years of its existence.
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