The Jordan Government has worked out detailed plans for the resettlement of Palestine Arab refugees along the Israel-Jordan border to “protect Jordan from Israel aggression, ” it was revealed today by a foreign diplomat who recently came here from Jordan.
He said that work had commenced on an 80-house project near the ruins of Kfar Etzion, a thriving Jewish settlement wholly destroyed by the Arab Legion during the War of Liberation. Another group of homes has been set on a ridge three miles northwest of Jerusalem. The Jordan Government and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency are sharing the cost of the projects equally.
(In Washington today, the Jordan Minister, Dr. Yusuf Haikal, announced that he had asked the State Department to “stop Israel Army aggression against Jordan, in connection with the guarantees of the tripartite declaration of 1950. ” He added that he had received no positive reply from the State Department except that the United States Government would look into the matter.)
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