ABSTRACT
Israel's attempt to nip the British under secretary of state's ideas in the bud failed, and they served as fertile soil upon which the Alpha Plan sprouted. The Alpha document dealt with every point of controversy between the rival parties in the Middle East: territory, refugees, Jerusalem, Arab economic warfare, and communications and transportation agreements. Israel's demands for compensation were: war damages and the frozen assets of Jews from the Arab countries and Jewish property in Palestine that had fallen to the Jordanian Legion in the 1948 war. The Arab demands for compensation were: abandoned unmovable assets and abandoned moveable assets and lost income from the use of immovable property since 1948. London sought to rehabilitate its standing in the region, and in Egypt in particular, by brokering a settlement between Israel and the Arabs. The participation of Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser in the Afro-Asian Conference of unaligned nations in Bandung in April 1955 limited Egypt's freedom of action.
