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Your "Massacre of Kibya" [Oct. 26] made me boil with indignation at the crime-and at you! Were not the facts tragic enough? Why the inflammatory embellishment? . . . The blood bath at Kibya cannot be justified on any grounds; yet the burden of guilt must be shared by the Arab nations whose refusal to meet Israel at the conference table is keeping the wounds of war open in the troubled Near East...
...London speech last week, Dr. Cyril F. Garbett, Archbishop of York, condemned the Israeli government for the "cruel massacre" of Arabs at Kibya, in Jordan (TIME, Oct. 26). Added the archbishop, attacking the U.N.'s failure, among other things, to solve the problems of Arab refugees from Israel: "The Jewish vote in New York has had a paralyzing effect on the United Nations...
Debate will be held on the Arab-Israeli problem as closely as possible according to the rules of procedure of the U.N. Assembly. Each student will voice the opinion of a country of his choice...
...visit to the State Department highlighted an old flaw in U.S. foreign policy: any attempt to work out decisions for the critically strategic Middle East automatically becomes a hot issue of domestic politics. The Truman Administration zigzagged between the pleas of Pentagon strategists for the conciliation of Arab nations and the domestic pressures for strong support of Israel. When the chips were down, Harry Truman always yielded to political pressure. Generally, Eisenhower and Dulles have worked more consistently to restore Arab confidence...
...current crisis, the State Department suspects that Israel's controversial dam is a bargaining weapon in Israel's covetous designs on the waters of the Jordan River-at the expense of Arab neighbors. U.S. policy has tried to head off this crisis by backing a TVA-like development of the Jordan valley for the benefit of both Jews and Arabs. Last week suave Eric Johnston, onetime child prodigy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and currently the president of the Motion Picture Association, was going from capital to capital in the Middle East as Eisenhower's personal...