Editorial Note
The Department of State, on July 21, released a statement by Secretary of State Acheson on the Palestine problem. The key paragraph read as follows: “Now that the position of both parties have been fully defined in previous sessions of the [Palestine Conciliation] Commission, [Page 1240] it will materially advance the task of the Commission if both the Israeli and the Arab delegations return to Lausanne with full authority to enter into constructive and effective negotiations. It will also greatly facilitate the Commission’s task if both sides will now extend their exchange of views to all problems covered by the General Assembly resolution of December 11, in order to make possible a simultaneous and balanced approach to the closely related problems of territoral settlement and disposition of the refugees from the hostilities.” The full text of the Secretary’s statement is published in Department of State Bulletin, August 1, 1949, page 148.