Anti-Israel sentiment has been intensified in the Arab states by developments today in Damascus and Baghdad, it was reported here in dispatches from the Middle East.
In Damascus it was reported that the secretary of the Arab League has approved a suggestion by the Iraqi Minister to Syria that the Arab world boycott only those German firms which fill reparations orders for Israel. This device, the Iraqi said, would avoid a general boycott of West Germany and continue the traditional Arab-German friendship.
In the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad the Foreign Minister said that the boycott question would again be discussed by the Arab League. He made the statement in reply to a deputy who demanded immediate imposition of a boycott against German firms.
From Zurich it was reported that an Egyptian mission had arrived in Switzerland to purchase arms. A spokesman for the mission said that if it could not buy arms in Switzerland it would take them wherever it could get them.
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