Unless the United States and the United Nations keep the commitments they gave Israel to get her to withdraw from the Gaza and Akaba areas “the damage to the free world will be incalculable, “Mrs. Rose Halprin, acting chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, told a rally here tonight sponsored by the American Zionist Council.
Mrs. Halprin and other top-ranking American Zionist leaders reported on the recent meetings in Jerusalem of the full Jewish Agency executive.
Calling on President Eisenhower to back up his pledge that if Egyptian President Nasser pursues belligerent tactics he would be dealt with firmly, Mrs. Halprin pointed out that “to this very day, Nasser continues to pursue the tactics of a belligerent and, in fact, maintains that Egypt is still in a state of war with Israel.”
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the Zionist Organization of America, expressed concern over the failure of the just-concluded Bermuda conference between President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to produce anything “tangible” regarding the problems of Gaza, Akaba and the Suez Canal. He warned that the U. S. and the UN are “courting another explosion” that may occur the moment President Nasser decides to re-assert belligerency toward Israel.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress, told the rally that “if the situation in the Middle East is not rectified now, there is again danger of war.” Louis Segal, secretary of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order, declared that the atmosphere in Israel today is “calm and more confident than the atmosphere that prevails in the U. S.”
Dr. Irving Miller was re-elected chairman of the Council at a meeting of the organization before the public rally.
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