Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, leading U. S. military historian whose recent writings on the Sinai campaign attracted international attention, last night told hundreds of high-ranking U.S. Reserve Officers here that ”Israel for its own security ought to have held on to Gaza.”
The general told the officers’ meeting that any soldier would agree that, without the Gaza Strip, Israel has a ”wide-open border.” Without the Gaza Strip, said Gen. Marshall, Egypt could not carry on its campaigns of infiltration and harassment.
William Sands, editor of the Middle East Journal, said today that Israel must give the Arab refugees a choice of cash compensation for their former property or freedom to return home. A former U. S. foreign service officer, Mr. Sands said Israel has little chance for peace, so long as the Arab refugees have hopes of returning to their Palestine homes. He addressed the 35th annual session of the National Academy of Economic and Political Science in the Brookings Institution.
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