The Garreau plan for the internationalization of Jerusalem has no support in the United Nations Trusteeship Council and several Council members, including the United States and Britain, are basing their hopes for a Jerusalem solution on a negotiated settlement between Israel and Jordan, Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, of the American Christian Palestine Committee, said here today upon his return from a visit to the current meeting of the Council in Geneva.
Dr. Inman expressed the conviction that such an Israel-Jordan agreement would be brought into the Council within a few weeks. He said that on a recent trip to the Near East he had received definite information that negotiations between the two countries were in progress, leading him to that conviction.
Referring to a report released last month by a fact-finding commission of the American Christian Palestine Committee, of which he was a member, Dr. Inman declared that if the U.N. General Assembly attempted to set up a corpus separatum in Jerusalem by force, the Holy City would become a center even more so than Berlin of world disorder and international intrigue that “could easily lead to World War III.” The factfinding report recommended the establishment of a U.N. commission to supervise the Holy Places with no territorial sovereignty.
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