United States Ambassador to Israel, Edward B. Lawson, arrived here today to report to Secretary of State Dulles and other top officials on the mood in Israel and the Arab-Israel situation. He will remain about two weeks.
President Eisenhower said last night that “we will do all in our power, through the United Nations whenever possible, to prevent resort to violence” in the Middle East Speaking before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the President said: “We are determined to support and assist any nation in that area which might be subjected to aggression. We will strive untiringly to build the foundations for stable peace in the whole region.”
Making known that his words applied “with special force” to the Arab-Israel situation, Mr. Eisenhower said an important task of U. S. foreign policy “is in helping to resolve disputes between friends we value highly.” Such disputes, he stated, impair the unity of the free nations and impede their advance. “In these situations, each said would like the United States to back its point of view without reservation,” he declared. “But for us to do so could seldom contribute to the settling of the disputes. It would only sharpen the bitter enmities between the opposing sides and impair our value in helping to reach a fair solution.” He said “our aim and effort must be to assist in tempering the fears and antagonisms which lead to such disputes.”
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