Eric Johnston, President Eisenhower’s special Ambassador to the Middle East, and Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk, author of the plan to develop a Jordan Valley authority, will be among the major speakers who will address the three-day conference on Israel of the American Christian Palestine Committee which opened here tonight.
The United Nations should investigate the reported remark of King Saud that the Arab states should not hesitate to sacrifice ten million of their own people to wipe out Israel, the conference was told tonight by Dr. Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government at Harvard University, who expressed “deepest concern” over the Saudi Arabian King’s statement. He told the opening session that “it (the remark) should be made the basis of an inquiry on the part of the U. N., because if true, it constituted a challenge to the very foundations of world order under law, being a veiled threat of war, which raised serious doubts as to whether Saudi Arabia should continue to be considered a peace loving nation.”
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