Israeli and Arab delegates to the peace talks today sat for the first time at the same conference table.
This was the opening meeting of a new mixed committee set up to discuss the “unfreezing” of assets blocked by the two sides since war broke out in Palestine. Members of the Conciliation Commission also took part. Until now the Arab and Israeli delegations have met only the commissioners, who relayed the views of one side to the other.
(A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Washington today said that conferences are being held in the State Department to develop a new compromise for presentation to the Arabs and Israelis at the Lausanne peace parley which is sponsored by the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission. A State Department spokesman said today that Paul A. Porter, American representative to the U.N. Commission, is here for a few days. “The consultations are to go over all problems at Lausanne. Cur purpose is to do what we can to get both sides closer together,” the spokesman declared.)
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