King Abdullah of Transjordan, addressing a press conference of representatives of foreign newspapers and news agencies today, declared that the development of the port of Aqaba as a “gateway to the East” was foremost in his mind. He said the resettlement of Palestine’s Arab refugees was an “inescapable human duty of the world.”
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