The United States Government believes that a just and workable” solution of the Palestine problem can be found by the United Nations and is prepared to accept the decision reached by the body whether or not it recommends a partition plan, Assistant Secretary of State Norman Armour told a dinner meeting of the Arab American Institute here tonight.
Repeating Secretary Marshall’s statement that the U.S. lends “great weight” to the principle of partition as recommended by UNSCOP, Armour said the U.S. had been “endeavoring to contribute to the elaboration of the details of a just and workable plan of partition” in current debates at Lake Success.
Armour said he could not “emphasize too strongly that the position which the Government of the United States has taken with regard to Palestine does not indicate lack of friendship or consideration for the Arab world.”
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