State Department sources today interpreted Secretary Dulles’ remarks yesterday on conditions necessary for the resumption of aid programs to Israel to similarly apply to the four-month-old ban on travel to the Jewish State. Officials suggested that the travel ban would be lifted simultaneously with the resumption of aid to Israel.
Secretary Dulles told a press conference yesterday that American economic assistance and the return of American technical missions to Israel will be restored as soon as conditions which led to the suspension of aid were corrected. Travel to Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan was barred by the U. S. when hostilities broke out last fall.
President Eisenhower today met with James P. Richards, former House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, who will head an Eisenhower Doctrine mission to the Middle East. A final decision on the itinerary has not yet been decided. Mr. Richards said he did not rule out any country. He and eight to ten members of the mission will leave for the Middle East next Tuesday. The President will meet again with Mr. Richards before his departure.
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