Ernest K. Lindley, noted Washington correspondent, asserted today that the March 1 statement to the General Assembly by Mrs. Golda Meir, listing the “assumptions” of Israel’s Sinai withdrawal, “was written in full collaboration with our State Department” and personally approved by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Lindley, writing in the current issue of “Newsweek,” disclosed this in support of his contention that “the honor and good faith of our government and of the President himself, are directly involved in the Israeli-Egyptian crisis.”
The columnist also reported that Mrs. Men’s original draft was “extensively altered” at the request of the State Department and that Ambassador Abba Eban and various U.S. officials “spent more than eight hours in hammering out the final version” which was “approved by Secretary Dulles. Thus, Mrs. Meir’s statement was actually a joint statement” of Israel and the Eisenhower Administration.
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