There is every assurance that other governments will cooperate in the financing of such a plan. notably the United Kingdom. Italy. and Germany have already indicated their interest. and so has the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It would be essential also to bring into Mideast economic development and the resettlement of the Arab refugees the oil revenues of the Mideast and the oil companies which pay them. These oil revenues aggregated $1.026 billion in 1957 and are an indispensable element of any Mideast program. The argument is made that the Arab States might not work with us due to Arab nationalist pressure. but in efforts in regional economic development we are not confined to the Arab States alone but should include the economic region involved. leaving the problems of an economic bridge to Israel to be solved for the present through the United Nations.
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