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Algerian Premier Urges Arabs’ to Strike at Israel’ in African Lands

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Algeria’s Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Bella has told an Egyptian newspaper interviewer that Israel “must first be struck in Africa before it is struck in Tel Aviv,” because Israel’s influence in Africa has “saturated” that continent “with the imperialist Zionist idea, ” according to dispatches from Cairo received here today.

The daily Al Ahram, of Cairo, considered the unofficial organ of the Egyptian Government, published the purported interview with Mr. Ben Bella, quoting him as saying that the Arab states could strike at Israel through unity. The. Algerian leader was reported planning on going to Cairo later this month, thence with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to Addis Ababa, to attend a meeting to be held in the Ethiopian capital by the Pan-African Congress.

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