The American Veterans Committee today announced adoption of a policy decision to ask the U.S. Government “to investigate reports of persecution of Jews in Egypt, ” If these reports are found factual, the veterans group said, the United States should “register a sharp protest and attempt to forestall any Nazi-like situation. “
The AVC asked, meanwhile, that the United States “refuse to accede to foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia which demand that Jews be barred from U.S. military installations in their countries. ” Defining its position on the Middle East, AVC called for open passage to “all nations” in the Gulf of Akaba and Suez Canal, United Nations control of the Gaza Strip, and a “fair solution of the refugee problem. ” AVC asked the United States to take the lead in the United Nations to make a permanent United Nations Emergency Force.
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