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Eisenhower: “It would be intolerable if the holy places of the Middle East should be subjected to a rule that glorifies atheistic…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1957
It would be intolerable if the holy places of the Middle East should be subjected to a rule that glorifies atheistic materialism.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East

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