Mr. Chairman. I think the members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs will bear witness to the fact I have been as devoted a friend of the solution of the Palestine Arab refugee problem as there is on the committee. I am opposed with equal strength to both parts of the pending amendments. In the first place. with respect to the Arab refugees. they seek to cut the only promising program for their permanent resettlement. the United Nations program for $250.000.000. of which we contibute only a part. Let me emphasize before we make a mistake on this question of equalization that I appreciate both of these amendments are not unfriendly and I want to emphasize that I feel the people of Israel have not a more devoted friend in the House than the gentleman from Minnesota . In the technical assistance part of this section. in the $55.000.000. there is $23.500.000 for the Arab States and only $3.000.000 for Israel.
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