The United States must continue “to press for effective implementation of the principle of freedom of the seas and free access to international waterways,” Vice President Richard M. Nixon urged today in a letter to the B’nai B’rith,
The letter, which was addressed to B’nai B’rith national president Label A. Katz, also emphasized that the U.S. Government must act to protect the interests of American seamen and shipping “now being discriminated against by the Arab boycott and blacklisting policy,” Mr. Nixon also said there was a need to try “with diligence and patience” to end Saudi Arabian exclusion of American servicemen of Jewish faith from the Dhahran airbase leased by the United States in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Katz announced the contents of the letter in a speech here before a convention of B’nai B’rith District No. 2. Mr. Nixon said U.S. policy recognized that the independence and integrity of Israel and the Arab countries of the area are of vital concern to the United States. “Our Government must continue to use every suitable occasion, both within and outside the United Nations, to facilitate progress toward a mutually acceptable solution of the Arab-Israel conflict, based on amity and recognition of each other’s existence and independence,” he stated.
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