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Senate Hears Appeal for U.S. Backing of $100,000 Loan to Israel

August 8, 1948
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Two Senate leaders today appealed to the U.S. Government to grant de jure recognition to Israel, back the $100,000,000 lean application for Israel now with the Export-Import Bank and sponsor membership in the U.N. for the new Jewish state. Senators Claude pepper, a Democrat, and Owen Brewster, a Republican, made the pleas on the Senate floor.

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