Differences of opinion have developed here between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan over the nature of the forthcoming summit conference. While Mr. Dulles, who is here to consult with the Bagdad Pact nations, holds that the summit parley should feature a general discussion of the Middle East problems–which would include the Arab-Israel problem–the British Prime Minister wants a limited agenda.
Mr. Dulles told the Bagdad Pact nations today that the United States would be ready to discuss with Russia at the summit conference any proposal for an arms embargo for the Arab states, and perhaps Israel, but not for Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, the surviving Middle Eastern members of the Bagdad Pact.
(The New York Herald Tribune reported from London today that American sources indicated last night prior to the opening of the Bagdad Pact Council meeting that “under no circumstances would the United States gamble with Israel’s future in a new understanding between the Soviet Union on the one hand and the United States, Britain and France on the other. Suitable guarantees for the frontiers of Israel must be given.”)
American circles here believe that a proposal for a United Nations guarantee of the Arab-Israel border could possibly be expanded into a general United Nations guarantee of borders in the Middle East.
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