President Truman was urged last night to recognize that the present U.S. policy on Jerusalem is “inconsistent with the principles which our nation has always employed in maintaining world leadership by supporting the rights of small nations in their struggles for justice and independence.”
In a resolution adopted last night at the opening session of a three-day conference of the Pioneer Women’s national board, the President was called on to implement his Thanksgiving Day proclamation by “directing our delegation to the United Nations to support Israel’s demand for the establishment of Jerusalem as a city functioning completely within the nation of which it is so important a part.”
Esther Herlitz, chief of the American section of the Israel Foreign Ministry, told the 350 board member attending the session that although peace with the Arab states is a major objective of Israel foreign policy today, it “will not be peace at all costs. We are ready to sit down and talk but the initiative must come from them,” she added.
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