The meeting of British envoys to all the Near Eastern states now taking place in Beirut, under the chairmanship of Foreign Office official Evelyn Shuckburgh, is viewed here as a prelude to a full-scale attempt by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to mediate the Arab-Israel conflict and thus clear the way for a regional defense plant.
Some sources, however, believe that sentiment in the Arab countries is running too high against Israel to permit a full-scale settlement and that the best that can be done at this time is to ease some of the tension, establish a modus vivendi and leave the solution of stubborn problems for a later time.
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