The “profound conviction” that an attempt to bring about peace in the Middle East has a very high priority on the foreign affairs agenda of the British Government, was expressed here by Dr. Abraham Cohen, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Dr. Cohen said he obtained his conviction as a result of the interview recently granted a delegation of the Board by Anthony Nutting, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
If nothing apparent was being done, Dr. Cohen said, persistent efforts were being made behind the scenes to bring Israel and the Arab States together. It might be that in the not too distant future a “surprise might be sprung on the world” in reference to the Middle East as had recently been done on Trieste, he continued.
Dr. Cohen made his statement at a dinner in honor of Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Israel, who is currently visiting here to help further a project for the establishment of a supreme religious center in Jerusalem.
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