Whatever hopes there may have been that the partition of Palestine would create in this area conditions of political and economic stability. they have proved illusory. There has been an ArabIsraeli war. followed by an uneasy truce. and many years of futile negotiations looking toward a permanent settlement. The boundary lines fixed in the assembly chamber of the United Nations have been changed by the.arbitrament of war. Along these unstable borders have occurred incidents of such violence as to shock the conscience of mankind. The lot of the Palestinian refugee has steadily worsened. Arab distrust of the U. N. and more particularly of the United States. has engendered thoroughout this entire area a mood of hostility and despair.