The U.N. Conciliation Commission received information today that King Abdullah of Transjordan privately met with representatives of the Israeli Government this week to confer on the Jerusalem issue. The Commission was greatly encouraged by this report.
(A Jerusalem dispatch to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that after two weeks of Inactivity, the special Israeli-Trans Jordan committee for Jerusalem met today for three hours. Although the discussions were kept top-secret, a rumor spread that progress was made regarding accessibility to the Wailing Wall and opening of the read to the Mt. Scopus area.)
The U.N. Commission adjourned its deliberations until Saturday after conferring today privately, first with the Israeli delegation and later with the combined Egyptian-Syrian-Transjordan-Lebanese delegations. An official communique issued by V the U.N. body following these meetings revealed that the four Arab states and Israel immediately signed a “protocol which is to become the working basis for future talks,” The text of the protocol, however, is being kept secret.
After today’s conferences, the Israeli delegation here announced that a committee will be established immediately to initiate frontier negotiations between the Jewish state and her neighbors.
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