The New York Times · 26 November 1961

CP-1961-013

Report to U.N. on Palestine Refugees

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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Nov. 25—Following are excerpts from a report to the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine by its special representative, Dr. Joseph E.

Johnson, and the text of the report’s conclusions: Despite all too frequent signs of intransigence and even of a bellicose attitude, I believe that responsible statesmen on both sides want peace in a general way and as a long-term goal.

Unhappily, however, these statesmen have not yet been able or willing to translate that generalized desire into a sufficiently strong and active search for peace with the “other side” to make certain adjustments that would seem to be necessary for true peace in the area.

Indeed the public record, as can be seen very clearly from the summaries of the positions of the governments in the two recent working papers of the commission, reveals a consistency of obdurate determination on both sides. There is even evidence that the passage of time has witnessed a hardening of public positions on some issues.

No one who has had an opportunity to confer at length with responsible statesmen in the area can fail to conclude that there is a large degree not only of mistrust and suspicion but of active fear on both sides.

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Read from the scan at 3x to 10x by a machine looking at the image of the page, not by OCR and not by a person. Date confirmed from the page: the folio prints 'THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1961.' in full, and 26 November 1961 was a Sunday. This is a reprinted document, not a news story - excerpts from Dr. Joseph E. Johnson's report to the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine, plus the text of its conclusions - so the excerpt runs the italic editor's note and then the document's own words. No one is quoted and no Palestinian is named anywhere in it.

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