New York Dinner Called ‘lnsult’
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NEW YORK, June 23.
A member of the New York City Council yesterday said that a dinner that the Mayor, Mr John Lindsay, will give in honour of Saudi Arabia’s King Feisal was “an insult.”
In a telegram to the Mayor, Cr. Theodore Weiss, called the Arab monarch the “leader of a country committed to the destruction of Israel and systematic discrimination against Jews.”
“Has the city administration no sense of decency and right?” Cr. Weiss asked.
“More than one-third of our city residents are Jewish. “It is an insult to them and really, to all of us, for the Mayor of New York to treat an Arab monarch as an honoured guest.” The Mayor declined to cancel the dinner. “I am happy to respond to the invitation of our State Department to give the dinner,” he said. The former Mayor, Mr Rob-
ert Wagner, barred any official welcome or reception for King Feisal’s older brother. King Saud Ibniabdul Aziz, in 1957.
Mr Wagner accused King Saud of being anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and an upholder of slavery.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31094, 24 June 1966, Page 11
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