At the end of World War II. I served on my local executive council of the American Christian Palestine Committee. which was set up. as you know. to further Israels interests. I opposed the policies of the British Government which endeavored to restrict immigration to Palestine. I intervened with my own Government to insure support of the United Nations partition plan which resulted in the establishment of the Jewish state. In the Congress. I joined with more than 100 Members in 1951 to support economic assistance to permit Israel to absorb hundreds of thousands of destitute refugees. As a member of the Foreign Aid Subcommittee of the great House Committee on Appropriations. I have for the past four sessions done my utmost to see that Israel was granted sufficient funds to progress with her noble task of creating a new life for the half of her people who have come to her shores since 1948.
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