“The United Nations has as much right to internationalize Jerusalem as it has to internationalize London or Washington or Moscow,” Deputy Mayor Reuben Shreidman of Jerusalem declared here last night in an address to 1,500 persons attending an emergency conference called by the National Committee for Labor Israel.
The conference was summoned to raise an immediate $1,000,000 in behalf of the Histadrut in Israel for the erection of factories to provide employment for new immigrants in the Jewish state. Rep. Jacob Javits, addressing the gathering, urged the formation of an “Organization of Near East States,” which would include Israel. He said such a body would “eliminate the Jerusalem controversy, nullify the possible effects of the present race for rearming in the Near East and provide for the introduction of President “Truman’s Point Four program.”
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