Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison yesterday reported to Commons that the British Government, through its envoys in Tel Aviv and Damascus, had attempted to convince the Israeli and Syrian Governments to settle their differences without further military activity and to withdraw any military forces they may have in the demilitarized zone in northeastern Palestine.
Sec. Morrison also reported that the Cairo Government had appealed to Britain, as one of the three powers which undertook last year to work for a peaceful solution in the Middle East, to intervene in the situation. The British charge d’affaires in Cairo was notified to tell the Egyptian Government that Britain was concerned about the situation and had made representations to the states involved, he said.
When Barnett Janner, Labor M.P. and Zionist leader, asked the Foreign Secretary whether the British Government would undertake to see that the United Nations acted to prevent further Syrian aggression such as cost seven Israeli policemen their lives this week-end, the Secretary replied: “If I may say so, these are matters concerning Israel and the Arab states with whom His Majesty’s Government are anxious to live in friendship–all of them.”
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