“A British plan for the Middle East Defense Organization was approved in general terms by the United States, France and Turkey and is now being submitted to those countries in detailed form,” the London Evening News reported today.
“A British Chief-of-Staff,” the report states, “will be named and he will have an international planning staff composed of British, American, French, Turkish and Greek officers. The island of Cyprus will be headquarters for the new organization,” the report says.
(In Washington, the State Department made known today that it is unable to confirm London reports that a Middle East Command headquarters would be established at Cyprus or that the British Government is presenting a new proposal to set up a seven-nation planning body to coordinate the organization of such a command.)
The London paper stressed that ‘Egypt is aware that the sponsoring powers now intend to go ahead with their Middle East Defense Organization, and that they are leaving the door open for her to come in later if she should decide to do so.”
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