President Eisenhower’s statement last night that the United States “will observe its commitments, within constitutional means, to oppose any aggression” in the Middle East was warmly welcomed here this afternoon by the “Foreign Office spokesman, who said that the statement set out more clearly than before the attitude of the United States. The spokesman also told newsmen that talks among the representatives of the Western Big Three powers in Washington were continuing.
Foreign Office sources indicated their belief today that the Eisenhower statement had gone just about as far as a President of the United States can constitutionally go without Congressional approval. Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has been pressing for some such statement, which would bolster the British position when he confers on the Middle East with Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khruschev, who will arrive here next week.
Earlier, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd had accepted the invitation of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau to discuss Middle Eastern problems. Their meeting has been scheduled for the beginning of May, when the Ministers will be here for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Council.
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