President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden have agreed on a three-pronged approach as a solution to the Arab-Israel conflict, Sir Anthony declared at the airport today upon his return from the Washington conference. He spent several days in Canada between the end of his talks with the President and his return.
There was complete agreement between the two leaders of the Anglo-American alliance on all three points, Sir Anthony said. He termed the Israel-Arab conflict the “most important danger” in the Middle East. The three approaches to the problem, he said, are:
1. Trying, without benefit of publicity, to bring the parties closer together. Financial help had been offered to assist in settling the “unhappy” Arab refugees, and the United States, and Britain had indicated their willingness to guarantee agreed frontiers,”; 2. An increase in the number of United Nations observers along the borders to reduce the chance of incidents; 3. To give effect to the obligations of the signatories of the Tripartite Declaration of 1950.
This afternoon, the Prime Minister will report to the Cabinet on the Eisenhower talks and on plans for settling the Middle East dispute. He is expected to make a full statement to Commons early next week.
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