Eban, Back From Israel Capital, Lacks Compromise on Deadlock; Ike, Senators Speak on Mideast

The Middle East crisis took the spotlight in international affairs yesterday. These were the developments:

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 25--Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel was reported tonight to have returned from Jerusalem without any compromise plan for solving the Israeli-Egyptian deadlock.

An authoritative diplomatic source who would not be identified said there had been no change in the situation despite Eban's dash to talk to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.

He said the crisis will have to be fought out in the open in the U.N. Assembly. The Assembly will meet at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to dispose of the Cyprus case involving Britain, Greece and Turkey. Diplomats said it then would turn to the Middle East Crisis.

This development put a damper on the hopes of some delegates who earlier had professed belief a solution was in sight.

The authoritative source, familiar with the course of the talks, said Eban's trip to Jerusalem had had merely a delaying effect.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--President Eisenhower broadcast a warning to the Middle East countries today that international communism could "smash all their hard-won accomplishments over-night."

He centered on the Middle East, where some nations have trafficked with the Communists and others have flirted with the idea of doing so.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--Sen. Johnson of Texas, the Senate's Democratic leader, reported today that prospects of an Israeli withdrawal from disputed Egyptian territory are brightening.

The situation appears to be "somewhat more hopeful," he told reporters after a talk with Secretary of State Dulles.

"So long as the parties to the Middle East dispute keep talking, there is a possibility of settlement," Johnson added.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont.) said tonight that the Eisenhower administration is following a disastrous "formula for inertia" in relying almost wholly on the United relying almost wholly on the United Nations to solve the Middle East crisis.

Mansfield, assistant Senate Democratic leader, said the administration has shown a "lack of policy" in handling events which he said were drifting in "a highly dangerous direction."