President Eisenhower today heard Secretary General Abdel Hassouna of the Arab League ask for the continuation of the suspension of American aid to Israel at a meeting at the White House today at the same time Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was conferring with a Jewish delegation which called at the State Department to ask for resumption of aid.
The Arab League Secretary General described Mr. Eisenhower as sympathetic and said he had brought to him the Arab League’s expression of “goodwill and friendship. ” At first he would not say specifically if he had discussed the Israel aid question with Mr. Eisenhower but later made known that he had. The Arab leader said he had discussed current problems confronting the Arab states but declined to be specific. He was accompanied by Under-Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith and John Jernegan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban, accompanied by Minister Reuven Shiloah, called on Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, this afternoon to discuss matters bearing on the question to be brought before the United Nations Security Council tomorrow.
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