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...Raflk Asha, chief of the Syrian delegation at the United Nations, lashed out at the "jungle law of the Zionist experiment" in a speech last night to 200 members of the U.N. Council's foreign affairs conference...
Decrying what he termed "slander by remote control," Asha attacked those Americans who have never been in the Near East but have furnished the American people with "unbalanced information" on his area of the world...
Specifically, Asha attacked Israel for expelling Arab refugees, plotting to expand into neighboring Arab territories, and failing to live up to the United Nations agreement for partition of Palestine...
...three organizations also charged that Friday night's forum, coming on a week day, would probably get a higher attendance than Saturday's talk, and hence would give the Arabs as unfair advantage since the Israelis have been denied the right to have a representative question Asha directly. Richardson replied that questions will be allowed from the floor, and that the Council had done its best for the Israelis by arranging for Liveran to present their side of the Middle East dispute. In addition, Richardson observed, lest anyone charge the U.N. Council with favoritism, "an Israeli speaker had been invited...
...Brownstein '56 and Irwin M. Berg '56, president and secretary of the Hillel Society respectively, told the CRIMSON yesterday that their primary objection was the presenting of one side of the issue at a time, but indicated that they would be satisfied if the U.N. Council announced before Asha's speech that he was only presenting the question form one point of view. Richardson replied that the Council had already intended to do this, and added that this should also pacify Mishael Zedek's 1G Israeli group in the graduate schools...