Once again Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refused to define what he meant by territorial sacrifices which would have to be made as a condition of an Israel-Arab peace settlement, when he was questioned in Commons today by Laborite Donald Chapman.
After Chapman had rephrased his question several times, each time attempting to get the Prime Minister to make a specific commitment, Sir Anthony referred him to a Jerusalem dispatch published in yesterday’s Times of London for a “little bit” of elucidation. The dispatch said, in effect, that there is now a “grudging admission in high places” in Israel that Sir Anthony’s compromise-mediation speech of three weeks ago might have been “well intentioned and not to have implied truncation” of Israel.
The possibility of an Anglo-Israel security pact, similar to those that exist between Britain and several Arab states, was discussed here this evening by a British Labor Party delegation which visited the Foreign Office. The party, which raised the general question of the Middle East situation, was led by Labor Party chairman Edwin P. Gouch.
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