Professor Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat, for many years Uruguay’s Ambassador to the United Nations, was hailed here at a meeting of the United Zionist-Revisionists of America as “an old and steadfast friend” of Israel. Prof. Fabregat is leaving soon for Vienna, where he will be his country’s Ambassador to Austria.
Addressing the meeting conducted by the Zionist-Revisionists, Prof. Fabregat told the audience he was first attracted to the lot of Jews when, as a child, his father read to him accounts about the Dreyfus Case in France, where an innocent French-Jewish army officer was persecuted.
Professor Fabregat was a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine in 1947, and later one of the principal proponents of the UN Palestine partition resolution which the General Assembly adopted. He has often been denounced by Arab delegations at the UN for his friendship to Israel.
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