State Department sources today termed the rumor that the Jordan Government will ask President Eisenhower’s special envoy to the Middle East, Eric Johnston, to again postpone his visit to the region until September, “a straw in the wind.”
According to State Department sources, Ambassador Johnston is determined to arrive in the Arab-Israel area next week to present the American-sponsored regional water scheme. He will visit the Arab states first and then Israel.
Doris Fleeson, Washington columnist now visiting the Arab countries, reports today from Beirut that “some quarters” there say that the Johnston water development plan is “doomed” and that Ambassador Johnston is coming to the Middle East “only to inter it decently.”
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