One hundred and seventyeight million dollars is involved this year in their budget. Onethird of the entire expenditures of that povertystricken country is being dedicated to the purchase of planes. tanks. and frigates. How much better it would be if a far more substantial portion of that amount were being used to resettle their unfortunate fellow refugees in the adjoining areas. and how much more it would contribute to the establishment of that peace which is certainly the desire of all libertyloving people everywhere. Mr. President. I believe we are being asked for fifteen or twenty million dollars in connection with the $40.000.000 fund they are seeking to establish to resettle the refugees under the control of the United Nations. The Arab countries are being asked for the magnificent sum of $6.000.000. the six Arab countries. and meanwhile one of them alone can spend $178.000.000 on rearmament. which means that the others must rearm. Particularly does it mean that Israel must take cognizance. in view of all these inflammatory utterances. of the fact that they cannot possibly ignore this development. that they. too. must proceed to deplete their already exhausted resources. because of the sums they are spending from their own resources. and from those received from America. in order to assist in the resettlement of the refugees from Europe who are pouring in on them. They must deplete some of those funds in order to start buildAng up their armaments against the possible day of the imminence of conflict. such as is openly threatened. We are told they must prepare to dafend themselves.
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