Congressman Jacob K. Javits tonight urged American Jews to give “full cooperation” to the Eisenhower Administration’s new policy for the Middle East, but warned that this policy must not result “in whittling away United States aspirations for the Middle East in a series of compromises of expediency with Arab intransigence or fanaticism.” He spoke at a dinner in the Hotel Commodore sponsored by the American ORT Federation on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
Rep. Javits, who heads a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on overseas economic policy, asserted that the new United States program for the Middle East, recently outlined by Secretary of State Dallas on his return from a tour of the area, “does not in any way mean that the Administration proposes to reduce its interest in, or aid to, Israel.”
Dr. William Haber, president of American ORT, informed the guests that 200,000 persons had received vocational training during the post-war years at schools maintained by ORT in 19 countries.
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