In the face of the continued Syrian purge of pro-Masser elements from the army and civil service, just a few weeks after Syria agreed to join Egypt and Iraq in a new tripartite United Arab Republic, Ahmed Ben Bella, Prime Minister of Algeria, appealed to Syria and Iraq this weekend to stay united with Egypt.
“Beware of Israel, our common enemy,” the Algerian Prime Minister said in a statement in Algiers. He was greeting Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who came on a four-day state visit to Algeria. The Algerian Prime Minister also said in his speech that he hoped that his country would enter the new United Arab Republic.
(In Washington, the endorsement by the Algerian Premier of the new Arab Federation was interpreted as a general statement of sentiment rather than commitment to join the union as full member.)
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