Clive Evatt, a New South Wales member of Parliament and a prominent attorney, declared here today that “Israel is within its legal rights in international law with regard to the Jordan River irrigation project.”
Mr. Evatt, a former Government minister, and brother of Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australians Foreign Minister at the time Israel was established, said in an address here that “those Jews who have been and are helping Israel should known that what they have done to date is only a drop in the ocean, and the real squeeze is yet to come. Israel and world Jewry could not place complete reliance on the understanding and support of the Western Powers and had let her down a number of times in the past,” he declared.
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