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Israel Protests to Czech Government Against Arming Egypt

October 5, 1955
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Israel has told Czechoslovakia that it would regard deliveries of arms by Prague to the Egyptian Government as an unfriendly act, it was announced here today. This statement was made by Shlomo Kaddar, Israel Charge d’Affaires in Prague to the Czechoslovak Foreign Office.

Acting on instructions from Jerusalem. Mr. Kaddar sought an explanation of the Czechoslovak agreement to sell Egypt arms. He told the Czechoslovak Deputy Foreign Minister Mme. Trude Sekaninova that Egypt, armed by the Czechoslovak Government, would be a danger to Israel’s security. He insisted that delivering arms to an aggressor nation was tantamount to abetting aggression and could not be excused by terming the matter an ordinary bilateral trade transaction.

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