§ 51. Mr. Grimondasked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on his proposal for a guarantee of Israel's frontiers.
§ The Prime MinisterThe position of Her Majesty's Government is that they are prepared to guarantee Israel's frontiers after a settlement which includes an agreement on what those frontiers are to be. That is also the position of the United States Government, as will be seen from President Eisenhower's statement on 9th November. As I told the House on 4th April, and as Her Majesty's Government have repeated several times since, if we can get an arrangement between Israel and the Arab States we should be ready to guarantee it.