Transjordan Insists Best Course Open to It Are “adequate Arrangements with Israez”

The Transjordan Government, through its radio station in Remallah, in the Arab triangle area, declared today that the “best course open to the Transjordan Government is to make adequate arrangements with Israel, through revision of armistice clauses, which will permit a settlement satisfactory to both sides.”

The Ramallah broadcast, monitored here, added that “such arrangements must not be interpreted as a peace treaty.” The station said that the “two main problems facing Transjordan today are the settlement of the refugee question and safeguarding (the country’s) lengthy frontiers.”

“Anybody who imagines that these two paramount issues can be settled by force of arms is very far from the realities of the situation,” the broadcast concluded.

Meanwhile, in accordance with an agreement concluded by representatives to the mixed Israel-Egyptian Armistice Commission concerning the removal of bodies of Egyptian soldiers slain in the Arab-Israel war, a group of Egyptian officers this week-end crossed the Israel line in the Gaza-Bethlehem area to search for the remains of bodies interred there and arrange for their transfer to Egypt. A convoy of 12 vehicles crossed Israel territory and will return via the same route, it was announced.

The first Israel automobile to enter Transjordan-held Jenin, in the Arab triangle area, carried Israel Army Chief Rabbi Col. A. Goren, who visited the burial place of 30 Israel soldiers, it was reported today.

A large crowd of Arabs surrounded the vehicle when it crossed the Arab line. Many of the Arabs threatened the auto passengers, thinking they were “Israel spies,” but dispersed quietly when Rabbi Goren’s objective in visiting Jenin was made known.