Charges that the United States supports a point of view exactly the opposite of the Vatican’s at current Lausanne discussions on the fate of Jerusalem appeared this week-end in a front-page editorial in “I1 Quotidiano,” a newspaper which often serves as a medium for semi-official Vatican statements.
The editorial charged that American representatives at Lausanne were opposing Vatican proposals for the Internationalization of Jerusalem on the ground that an autonomous Jerusalem would not be economically viable. The paper dismissed, along with this contention, the idea reported as prevalent in Lausanne, that United States opposition was motivated by fear of Russian intervention. It stated that despite the United States stand the forthcoming session of the General Assembly would not be without echoes of Christian aspirations.
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