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Britain Seen Wooing Arab States with Economic Concessions

May 31, 1957
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Britain is attempting to regain economic initiative in the Middle East, and is again launched on a course of offering concessions to Arab states in an effort to woo those countries, according to diplomatic circles here.

Diplomats here believe the British will offer concessions to Egypt in order to bring about resumption of the talks suspended in Rome last week between representatives of the London and Cairo governments. The British are thought inclined to facilitate unfreezing Egyptian accounts frozen in the United States. They are also wooing Jordan, reportedly having initiated an offer of renewed economic aid to the Amman Government.

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