Just after his talks in New York with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion last month (and just before his trip to Vienna), President Kennedy tried to still Arab fears that any Democratic Administration, because of the heavy vote it draws from U.S. Jews, is automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing of...
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