Jewish. and Moslem faiths and the integrity of their shrines as well as full and convenient access to them. and with both Israel and Jordan guaranteeing those rights under penalty of international sanctions in the event of any violation. This was the state of affairs which I found when I visited Israel last November. A condition of tension. a condition of the suspension of war but not of peace. a condition of overwhelming problems for the small new state of Israel. of great austerityfar more than is found even in Britainfor the people of Israel. and of real hardship for the Jewish refugeesas indeed it is for the Arab refugees. too. Yet in the midst of this tension and difficulty an event was occurring of the most serious consequence for the peace of the world. for I found that an arms race was in full swing between the Arab states and Israel based upon the widespread shipment of arms to the Arab states by Great Britain. while the Arab press and radio were full of fulminations against Israel. promising a second round in the ArabIsraeli war. The world had been warned against the danger of an arms race in that area in connection with the action of the Security Council of the United Nations which on August 11. 1949. voted to lift the arms embargo which had been imposed on the Near.
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