Eban Confers with Dulles Today on Israel’s Attempt to Buy Arms in U.S.

Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban will meet tomorrow with Secretary of State John Foster Dulies for a new discussion of the pending attempt by Israel t obtain arms from the United States. It is believed that this issue and other current questions will be on the agenda.

It is thought likely that the implications of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hamarskjold’s visit to the Near East will he discussed, although Mr. Hammarskjold is just now concluding his trip.

At his press conference today. Mr. Dulles replied to questions on support of Communist China voiced by President Nasser of the United Arab Republic by saying that “the United Arab Republic had obtained a good deal of support, particularly support in terms of military equipment, from the Sino-Soviet bloc and probably expects to get more. That may be an explanation of the position.”

Mr. Dulles expanded a denunciation of Communist China’s declaration of a 12-mile territorial waters limit to include a rejection of claims to a similar limit by any nation. He declared that “we do not accept from the Chinese Communists or anybody else, for that matter, the extension of territorial waters to 12 miles. That is what you might call a ‘grab It cannot be effected unilaterally by any nation any more than it can grab territory.”

The position taken by Mr. Dulles was expected to be of great interest to Israel since Saudi Arabia has sought to establish a 12-mile territorial waters limit in the Gulf of Akaba in order to bar Israeli shipping.

(At the United Nations, announcement was made that the United Kingdom had signed the new international agreement drawn up at an 83-nation parley last April which establishes specific rules for the right of innocent passage of ships through territorial waters. The United States has not yet adhered to the convention which disregarded Saudi Arabian, Egyptian and Jordanian designation of the Gulf of Akaba as an “Arab waterway.”)