Some serious questions…how is it U.S. Foreign policy makers regard Saudi Arabia as one of the “great American allies” when Jews were not permitted entry into Saudi Arabia, along with Iceland, notoriously barring entry of black Americans and harboring bitter Anti-American sentiment was chosen by the Soviets to host the world tourney placing not only the lives of Robert Fischer and the American delegation in danger, but “Foreigners” in general, as well? I want the latter drilled into the minds of FIDE because they have some serious soul searching introspection to do and APOLOGIZING to the African and brown communities before bloviating about all their high and mighty efforts, now, too little too late to promote “equality” and “diversity” in chess. Their worst example of all, is they go on defending the malicious treatment of the greatest chess player in history, Robert J. Fischer. They stood back and participated in tormenting Fischer on basis of his traits of Autism Spectrum, and the fact he kept the same Sabbath as the Jews; Saturday Sabbath, lambasted as “temperamental”. Every time they open their mouth, they still can not refrain from pointing out so-called “obvious flaws”. It's time for a changing of the guard!
The Shreveport Journal Shreveport, Louisiana Thursday, September 26, 1963 - Page 9
On Air Force Policy—Rep. Waggoner Says Pentagon Hiding Order by Frank Van Der Linden, Journal Washington Bureau
Washington—Rep. Joe D. Waggonner, D-La., charges the Pentagon is deliberately concealing an Air Force regulation which has barred Negro airmen from Iceland and Jewish airmen from Saudi Arabia, Iran ([today, 2021, it should be noted a Jewish community dwells at peace within Iran]) and Pakistan.
Waggonner asked the Air Force for a copy of the order two months ago. He figured it would help his fight against Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's July 26 directive allowing military base commanders to declare segregated communities “off limits” to servicemen.
HAVING RECEIVED no direct answer, the congressman fired a hot letter to Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and sent copies to President Kennedy, McNamara and every member of Congress.
“I can well understand the embarrassment my request has caused and the reluctance to furnish this document to me,” Waggonner wrote, “The policy of not allowing Negro and Jewish members of the Air Force to be send to certain nations is at complete variance with recent lavishly publicized statements of “equality” of treatment for Negroes, and I am interested in learning how these two opposing no-discrimination policies are in effect at one and the same time. We cannot justify one policy in effect at home and another in effect abroad.
“I UNDERSTAND the document in question may be undergoing a hasty revision, perhaps, even as a result of my request for a copy of it.”
Waggonner's office said the regulation, adopted in 1960 reads: “Negro personnel will not be assigned for duty to USAF units located in Iceland” and “personnel of the Jewish faith or Jewish extraction will not be assigned to units in Saudi Arabia … Iran or Pakistan.”
The refusal to furnish him a copy, he said, is “a calculated and deliberate rebuff to a member of Congress.”
On Air Force Policy 26 Sep 1963, Thu The Shreveport Journal (Shreveport, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
