President Eisenhower’s “constructive efforts” on behalf of a Jordan River development plan were hailed at a dinner conference here tonight sponsored by the American Christian Palestine Committee.
The President’s special envoy to the Near East, Eric Johnston, is now on his way back from a trip to the area, having failed to secure Arab-Israel agreement to his plan for the division of the waters of the Jordan. In a general, six-point resolution on United States foreign policy to the Near East, the American Christian Palestine Committee noted Mr. Johnston’s failure but urged “a continuation of the effort, so vital was the goal” for the peoples of the area.
Nearly two hundred guests at the dinner conference witnessed the presentation to Mayor Robert F. Wagner of a Bible bound within covers of silver, fashioned in Jerusalem. The citation accompanying the award was delivered by Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, chairman of the executive council of the Committee. It reads in part: “In gratitude for his keen, informed interest in the new state of Israel, for his sympathetic understanding of that nation’s role as a source of democratic thought and action in the awakening Near and Middle East.”
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