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Blaustein Confers with President Eisenhower on Middle East

March 31, 1953
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Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish Committee, today discussed Middle Eastern problems with President Eisen-hower in a 20-minute meeting at the White House Mr. Blaustein said he stressed the importance to world peace of achieving an improvement in relations between the Arab states and Israel.

(The New York Times today reported from Paris that a “distinguished individual” last month acted as a go-between in exchanging Egyptian and Israeli views on peace. The report said that the mediator was told by Egypt’s Foreign Minister that peace with Israel would be possible on two conditions: 1. Israel must contribute heavily toward the cost of resettling the Palestine Arab refugees; 2. Israel should enable the establishment of a common Egyptian-Jordan frontier in the Negev portion of the Jewish State. When these views were conveyed to Israel Premier David Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett their reaction “apparently was by no means totally negative,” the Times said.)

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