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Israel Denies Sending Delegate to Vatican for Conference

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A spokesman for the Foreign Office today denied press reports published abroad that an Israel delegate called at the Vatican for a conference. The spokesman said neither a representative of the Foreign Ministry nor of the Ministry of Religion visited the Vatican recently.

(King Abdullah of Transjordan told Gordon R. Clapp, chairman of the U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission’s economic survey group now visiting the Middle East, that a solution of the Arab refugee problem should be expedited by converting the present form of international relief extended to Arab displaced persons into feasible work projects, Reuters reported today from Amman.)

Dr. Pablo Azcarate, high ranking member of the secretariat of the U.N. staff in Palestine, today visited the Foreign Office and discussed routine matters with Dr. Leo Kohn, counsel, and Reuven Shiloah.

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