As a result of the Vatican’s recently renewed campaign in behalf of internationalization of Jerusalem and its environs the French Government is less favorably inclined toward the Dutch-Canadian proposal for international control of the Holy Places alone, it was learned today from usually well informed sources.
These same sources maintained that the French delegation at Lake Success will take no active role in opposing the Dutch-Canadian move, contenting itself with merely abstaining on any formal vote.
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