The British Government does not doubt Israel’s ability to defend herself against one Arab state or combination of Arab states, as has recently been asserted by Israeli personalities, Commander A.H.P. Noble, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said in Commons today. Commenting on the Egyptian-Syrian union, he saw no immediate reason to believe that the new state would have any greater military capacity than the two old states together.
Cmdr. Noble further stated that the British Government considers Israel’s armistice agreement frontiers as the ones which the signatory powers of the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 are pledged to defend against aggression. He also revealed the government was consulting the co-signatories of the declaration–France and the United States–on how the recent Syrian-Egyptian federation might affect the undertakings of the declaration.
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