Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia decoded at their recent conference in Cairo to open their territories to Soviet armed forces should the Western Powers carry out any plan for military intervention in the affairs of the Arab countries, it was reported today in a radio broadcast from Beirut, Lebanon.
The report said that the decision has been communicated to the Western Powers and “constitutes the reason which induced President Eisenhower to bring the question of the dispute between the Arab states and. Tel-Aviv before the Security Council. Reports from Ankara say that the Soviet authorities have recruited in Tiflis, Moslem volunteers from Northern Asia and China and that planes are ready to transport them to airfields in Syria and Egypt in case of need,” the Arab broadcast stated.
A broadcast from Damascus, Syria, stated that a number of Saudi Arabian and Syrian military students in Egypt are now being trained in the use of Russian arms in accordance with the military agreement signed by the three states.
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