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    "ocrText": "SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WAR III, Inc.\nA Non-Profit Educational Organization\n24 WEST 57TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y.. 10019\nSUITE 503\nLT 1-7020\nMarch 15, 1965.\nBOARD OF DIRECTORS\nMARK VAN DOREN\nHon. Chairman\nOPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE,\nREX STOUT\nVice President\nDR. ALBERT SIMARD\nTHE HONORABLE DEAN RUSK\nSecretary\nISIDORE LIPSCHUTZ\nTreasurer\nTHOMAS CRAVEN\nMRS. LOUIS S. GIMBEL, JR.\nDear Secretary Rusk:\nJULIUS L. GOLDSTEIN\nWILLIAM HARLAN HALE\nEMIL LENGYEL\nIt was most depressing and indeed alarming to read press\nWILLIAM J. LUYTEN\nERIC MANN\nreports that unnamed U.S. officials insist that American aid\nCHAT PATERSON\nHARRY LOUIS SELDEN\nto Egypt must go on despite \"recent Egyptian provocations\"\nJAMES H. SHELDON\nWILLIAM L. SHIRER\n(Washington Post, 1/6/65). It is only natural that Americans\nPIERRE VAN PAASSEN\nMAJ. M. WHEELER-NICHOLSON\nshould express outrage over the continuation of multimillion\nMRS. BELLE MAYER ZECK\ndollar subsidies to a regime which only recently insulted our\nADVISORY COUNCIL\npeople and contemptuously lampooned the Statue of Liberty --\nGEORGE BACKER\nthe symbol of freedom everywhere.\nSTUART CLOETE\nRICHARD DE ROCHEMONT\nWALTER D. EDMONDS\nLIONEL GELBER\nHowever, of even more fundamental concern to security\nMARY B. GILSON\nSHELDON GLUECK\nminded Americans are the persistent efforts on the part of\nJOHN R. INMAN\nsome State Department officials to conceal the anti-U.S.\nFRANK E. KARELSEN, JR.\nCHRISTOPHER LA FARGE\npolicies pursued by President Nasser, aiming at the destruc-\nHAL LEHRMAN\nMRS. DAVID ELLIS LIT\ntion of America's position in key areas of Africa and the\nMRS. HAROLD v. MILLIGAN\nMiddle East. Our taxpayers have been asked to support the\nHERBERT MOORE\nLEWIS MUMFORD\nNasser government to the tune of approximately $1 billion on\nADELE NATHAN\nLOUIS NIZER\nthe specious grounds which the above-mentioned unnamed U.S.\nQUENTIN REYNOLDS\nofficials reiterate in defense of aid to Nasser. These offi-\nLISA SERGIO\nG. E. SHIPLER\ncials allege that aid to Egypt bolsters U.S. influence over\nCHARD POWERS SMITH\nMRS. HJORDIS SWENSON\nthat regime; that such aid has moderated Nasser's aggressive\nR. J. THOMAS\nFRITZ VON UNRUH\nproclivities; that such aid keeps the situation in the Middle\nCHICAGO\nEast \"quiet\" and that it has blocked \"Soviet penetration\" in\nCOURTENAY BARBER, JR.\nthe Middle East.\nMRS. ROBERT BIGGERT\nJ.J. ZMRHAL\nLOS ANGELES\nIf U.S. aid has allegedly accomplished all or some of\nF. E. BROOKMAN\nMAJ. JULIUS HOCHFELDER\nthese admittedly worthwhile goals, certainly the American\npeople are entitled to a concrete accounting of these achieve-\nSAN FRANCISCO\nVERNON E. HENDERSHOT\nments. In previous correspondence with the State Department,\nALBERT RAPPAPORT\nSIDNEY ROGER\nthe Society, too, has been assured that aid to the Nasser\nST. LOUIS\ngovernment is accomplishing these objectives. For instance,\nJ. LIONBERGER DAVIS\ntwo years ago, the State Department assured us that within\none month Nasser would withdraw from Yemen.\nDIRECTOR OF RESEARCH\nHERBERT KRIEDMAN"
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