TESTING GROUND
ALLIES’ PROBLEMS MIDDLE EAST POST (10 a.m.) RUGBY. Jan. 3. Sir Edward Grigg, who succeeds the late Lord Moyne as Resident Minister for the Middle East, at a press conference on Wednesday gave a brief outline of the work awaiting him in his new appointment, states a Cairo correspondent. Sir Edward described the Middle East as the testing-ground for many of ft he problems confronting the United Nations, and said that the solutions found there would help the Allies elsewhere. The three problem of major importance in the Middle East were civil aviation, the development of oil, and the settlement of Palestine. Sir Edward did not discuss the first two. but said that the Palestine problem, while generally regarded as between Jews and Arabs, was also Christian, as there were Christians in Palestine.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21603, 4 January 1945, Page 6
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