Julian Amery, former British Minister of Aviation, told a leadership meeting of the Zionist Organization of America here today in connection with the Big Four talks, that the Western world “should avoid a Middle East Yalta.”
Mr. Amery, a Conservative Party leader who opposed British withdrawal from Egypt in 1956, declared that “if the Soviet wish to disengage from the Mideast, then the Big Four talks may be fruitful. But if, as I fear, they intend to maintain a quasi-colonial position in Egypt and Syria, then it would be quite wrong for the West to ask Israel to make any concessions with respect to the Sinai and the Golan Heights.” He noted that Jordan, as a Western-oriented state, “has much to fear from an extension of Soviet power as Israel.”
Mr. Amery said he did not believe that the world would ever agree to the division of Jerusalem. He said “there must be free access to the city for all and free access to the city for all means freedom to come and go and freedom to trade between Israel and Jordan.”
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