Russia is supporting Israel in the “Zionists’ efforts to control Palestine by force,” Brig. John B. Glubb Pasha, Commander-in-Chief of the Trans Jordan Arab Legion, asserted today prior to his scheduled return to the Middle East.
He charged that large quantities of arms had been smuggled to Israel from behind the iron curtain.” The arms, he said, had been bought by means of large subsidies” from the United States. He cited the “smuggling of aircraft to Israel out of Britain” as evidence of Israeli efficiency. He stressed that it was in Britain’s interest to arrive at an early Jewish-Arab settlement and “that can only be reached if the United Nations calls on Count Folke Bernadotte for a final plan and that the United Nations then insures that it is carried out.”
The Foreign Office, meanwhile cont nued to maintain its strict secretiveness concerning the purposes of Glubb’s visit to Britain. A spokesman today refused to divulge the identity of Foreign Office officials with whom Glubb met. He also was vague on the part which Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin took in these talks, confining himself to a declaration that the Secretary did not receive Glubb at the Foreign Office.
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