ABSTRACT
After about a month of informal meetings at Geneva, the PCC admitted that it had just about 'exhausted' all the possibilities of convincing the Arab states to agree to direct negotiations. James Barco of the American delegation reported to Washington that there had been 'no break in the Arab line', despite deliberate efforts to lobby Arab representatives indit·idua/ly so as to avoid a repetition of the 'old approach of full Arab representation in all meetings' which had shown such 'barren results' at Lausanne.36
