The Arab League Council today handed Transjordan an ultimatum, expiring Saturday, demanding that an official delegation be sent to the Council meeting here to clarify King Abdullah’s attitude toward the Arab body, Reuters reported here in dispatches from Cairo.
The ultimatum was handed down as the Transjordan Minister to Cairo, Bahaeddin Taoukan Bey, said that he had been instructed by Amman to attend Council meetings, but to boycott those sessions which the representatives of the Egyptian-sponsored “Gaza Government” attend.
Meanwhile, the Council decided to postpone until Saturday a vote on a Lebanese resolution providing for the automatic expulsion of any League member who signs a separate peace treaty with Israel. The resolution is quite obviously aimed at Trans jordan.
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