Charging that American policy on Palestine is ##ving “aid and comfort to the Arabs,” former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, speaking at the formal launching here of the Washington drive on behalf of the nationwide 250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal campaign, tonight demanded that the United States promptly lift its embargo on arms for Palestine.
At the same time, Gov. Lehman called upon the U.N. Security Council to establish and send to Palestine an international police force “to prevent breach of the ?eace and nullification of its own decision,” and urged the Council to invoke “other ?aesuree for the maintenance of peace and security.”
Stressing that the Arabs “can without difficulty get all the arms they need” from countries adjacent to Palestine, Lehman called upon the U.S. Government “to reexamine the effects of its embargo and to see that we do not give aid and comfort to aggressors who constitute a threat not only to peace in Palestine but to peace everywhere.”
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