Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, wife of the Vice President, has rejected the demands of Arab diplomats, that she resign as honorary chairman of an Israel Independence Ball, sponsored by Israel bonds, to take place Sunday.
In a letter replying to Iraqi Embassy Charge d’Affaires, Mrs. Johnson stated: “I have, for whatever small value it may be, tried to be accessible and available to as many as possible, without distinction as to religion, race, or region, and certainly including all states of the Near East.” She added that “I shall continue to do so.”
The Iraqi diplomat had insisted on Mrs. Johnson’s resignation because “the State of Israel is based upon the up surging of another nation’s land by force, displacing one million Arabs from their homeland.”
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