William Groan, president of the AFL, today protested to the State Department against plans to hold the forthcoming UNESCO conference in Lebanon next month. To participate in this conference as the guests of the Lebanese government, Green wired, would be “inconsistent with our policy of support of the U.N. and of our recognition of the government of Israel.”
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