Adlai E. Stevenson, head of the American delegation to the United Nations, said he considers as a “bitter pill” the “extensive criticism by the American Jewish community” of the action of U. S. delegation in supporting at the U. N. Security Council, the resolution censuring Israel last April for her retaliatory attack on Syrian gun positions.
In a letter to Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, spiritual leader of the K. A. M. Temple here, Ambassador Stevenson wrote: “The judge–the Armistice Commission — would not fix who was principally responsible for provocation, in large measure because Israel has refused access to the Commission in these regions. Hence, there, could be no equal condemnation of Syria.”
Mr. Stevenson went on to say that the Security Council could do nothing else under the circumstances. He expressed surprise that the resolution was as tempered as it was. “Then to be criticized so extensively by the Jewish community of the United States is a bitter pill,”he declared.
(At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Secretary General U Thant and Jacob Blaustein, noted American Jewish leader, had another long conference yesterday regarding a number of questions concerning the Middle East).
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