The conflict in French Morocco “represents only one front in a war being fomented throughout North Africa and the Middle East” by a Moscow-Cairo Axis which “has long been in preparation.” Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, director of the International Affairs Department of the World Jewish Congress, declared here today. Dr. Perlzweig addressed the closing session of the two-day meeting of the administrative and executive committees of the American Jewish Congress which convened here over the week-end.
The Moscow-Cairo alignment, he declared, “revealed itself overtly with the projected sale of Communist arms to Egypt” but has been evident “for many months in French Morocco, particularly in the form of incessant incitement by Radio Cairo and Radio Budapest.”
The United States Government was called upon by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the AJC, addressing the opening session, to declare its “unequivocal guarantee of Israel’s integrity” in order to prevent armed conflict in the Middle East. “In the light of the arms agreements which Egypt has reached with Communist nations,” he stated, “the urgency of a guarantee for Israel’s security has become the more pressing.”
Dr. Goldstein urged the State Department to act now the “constructive proposals” for Middle East peace and security made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his policy speech of last August. “The interests of our country dictate that, if we cannot deter Egypt from beginning a disastrous arms race in the Middle East, then we must supply Israel with sufficient arms to rectify the balance. In addition, we must guarantee Israel’s borders. Such a bilateral or multilateral security guarantee should be projected without delay,” he said.
A resolution protesting the cancellation of scheduled hearings on religious freedoms in the United States by a Senate subcommittee on constitutional rights, and another resolution calling upon Congress to revise the security program for government employees were adopted by the conference.
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