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Number of Co-sponsors of Senate Resolution Against Arabs Grow

July 3, 1956
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Eighteen Senators have become co-sponsors of the Senate bi-partisan resolution opposing discrimination against American citizens because of religion. The resolution, introduced last week, aimed particularly at Arab discrimination against American Jews.

The Republican co-signers are: Prescott Bush, James H. Duff, Irving M. Ives, William Langer, Frederick G. Payne and Thomas H. Kuchel. The Democrats supporting the resolution are: Dennis Chavez, Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Herbert Lehman, Warren G. Magnuson, Wayne Morse, James Murray, Mathew M. Neely, Richard Neuberger, and John O. Pastore.

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