TLS signed “Ike,” one page, 7 x 10.25, April 13, 1968. Letter to Lewis Strauss. In part: “I share your hope that we can soon have a meeting to discuss political and, indeed, world affairs. You may have heard of a man named Metropolitan Philip Saliba. He is an Archbishop of the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of New York and North America. He and an assistant came to see me. They are both Arabs and vastly interested in the peaceful development of the Mid East. The Archbishop himself was born in Lebanon and seems earnest in his effort to bring Jew and Arab together in some kind of better relationship. I told him of your first memorandum. About the plan for converting sea water to fresh in Israel and Egypt…He has a plan for devising a political entity in the Palestine area which he wants to call the Holy Land…” Philip Saliba (born June 10, 1931), is the current primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (1966 to present). In fine condition. JSA/John Reznikoff Auction LOA and RRAuction COA.
