Missions to the Middle East

Two newly appointed emissaries set out from the U.S. last week on missions to the restless Middle East: CJ

P:To Israel and the neighboring Arab states. President Eisenhower dispatched Eric A. Johnston, 57, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and chairman of the International Development Advisory Board. Johnston departed with the rank of ambassador and a presidential promise of "full support" and "the widest possible latitude" in carrying out his mission. The task: lessening Arab-Israeli tension by promoting cooperation on specific projects and problems, particularly irrigation and refugees (see FOREIGN NEWS), rather than by trying to sell an overall blueprint for peace.

P:I To Iran, Secretary of State Dulles sent an oil engineer, Herbert Hoover Jr., 50, son of the ex-President, to sound out prospects for a settlement of the British-Iranian oil wrangle. Hoover himself will not do any negotiating. His assignment is to look, listen and report back to Dulles.

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