I compliment my colleague on the statement he is submitting here tonight on the very difficult question of the refugee problem in the Middle East. but in particular I think it is well to underscore for the Senate that the refugee question is deteriorating. has been deteriorating now for 10 years. and in this state of deterioration it has created an explosive situation in the Near East that goes far beyond the matter of a quarrel between the Israelis and the Arabs in that part of the world. It is so explosive. and the power balance is so delicate. that an explosion of the kind we read of yesterday in Jordan may infect the rest of the world with its consequences. It could even trigger the much larger explosion we all fear. For that reason it is no longer simply a refugee question In an isolated portion of the globe. but it is one which affects all the peoples of the world and concerns all governments. The question must now be approached as one of worldshaking proportions rather than one of dealing with unfortunate human beings in a narrow part of the world.