The Anglo-Egyptian pact on British evacuation of the Suez Canal area, details of which are still being negotiated in Cairo, does not call for British reactivation of the Suez bases if “a non-Middle East power” should attack Israel, or “if Israel attacks any of the Arab League states,” the New York Times reported today from Cairo.
The report stated that these details are revealed in a booklet just published at Cairo by Major Salah Salem, Egyptian Minister of National Guidance. The pamphlet “explains” the terms of the Suez agreement which was initialled by Britain and Egypt, July 27. Major Salem is reported saying that the stipulation against British reactivation of the base “in the event of an attack from Israel” is part of the agreement, although it does not appear in the published text of the pact.
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