Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will discuss the Arab-Israel conflict in Paris with British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, in an attempt to secure a common approach toward bringing peace in the Middle East within the next six months, it was learned here today.
Mr. Dulles, who flew to Paris yesterday to participate in a three-day North Atlantic Treaty Council meeting which opens tomorrow, was accompanied by State Department advisers on Middle Eastern affairs. American officials said that a vital aspect of his mission will be talks with the representatives of Britain and France on Middle East problems, and that these talks will be held in private.
(The New York Herald Tribune reported today from Washington that it is the American view that without an Israeli-Arab settlement within six months the Middle East competition for arms may get out of hand. “At the moment officials believe that Israel holds a clear edge in military power,” the report said. “But this lead may be dissipated by a flow of Communist arms to the Arab states. The American goal, as explained here, is to win a Palestine accord by summer. There is a feeling in Washington that it is now or never,” the report stated.)
Moshe Sharett, Israel Foreign Minister, left here tonight by air for Paris. In the French capital he will meet not only with Foreign Minister Pinay but also with Italy’s Foreign Minister Gaetano de Martano. Mr. Sharett has also summoned all the Israel envoys in Western European countries for a special conference in Paris.
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