Senior British and American officers in the Mediterranean area have been discussing the Middle East as a soft spot in the defenses of the anti-Communist alliance, it is reported today in the New York Times in a cable from its London correspondent, Clifton Daniel.
The correspondent says that in the event of a war, a successful thrust by the Russians’ southern-front armies might overrun the Middle East. “For the moment,” the correspondent says, “the Western powers and the countries of the Middle East must rely on hope because their military resources are slender.” He asserts that “between Ankara and Karachi there is not a single government that is both stable and strong–not even Israel, which is energetic and progressive but still economically insecure.”
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