Britain has given no special assurances in conation with the proposal made at the Rhodes armistice negotiations that British. ###ces at Aqaba be reduced so that the combined Anglo-Trans Jordan force in the Aqaba-### Sea border region be equal in strength to the Israeli forces there,” a Foreign office spokesman said today.
The only assurances to this effect which Britain has offered, the spokesman ###ad, were those mentioned “by Foreign Undersecretary Christopher Mayhew in Commons ### Monday. (Mayhew told Commons that the British Government hope that the success-### conclusion of the Israeli-Trans Jordan armistice talks on Rhodes will make it un-necessary for Britain to dispatch troops to patrol the Aqata area northward to the ###d Sea.)
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