Chairman Emanuel Celler of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter today to Secretary of State Dulles emphasizing that Arab boycott practices against Americans trading with Israel are continuing.
“The dignity of our nation demands that representations be made to the guilty nations,” Rep. Celler insisted. He stressed to the Secretary that Arab diplomats accredited to the United States are directing discriminatory anti-American boycott operations “on our own territory.”
“Thus far our government has taken no public stand against this Arab bludgeoning. Indeed, it seems that the silence of our government lends encouragement to this boycott based on bigotry,” he wrote. He noted that under the “guidance” of Mr. Dulles, agreements were renewed translating Arab bias into U.S. discrimination against Jewish citizens. He referred to the barring by official U.S. order of U.S. personnel of Jewish faith from Saudi Arabia.
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