Before he returns to Israel in two weeks for month-long consultations with top members of the Israel Government, Ambassador Abba Eban will raise with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Israel’s security needs in the light of the continuing stream of armaments reaching the Arab state from both the East and the West, it is anticipated here.
(A report from London today said that while he is in that city beginning tomorrow to discuss disarmament problems with the Western Powers, Secretary Dulles will also confer with them on the Middle East.)
Specifically, Ambassador Eban is expected to tell Secretary Dulles that the flood of Soviet jets, armor and artillery to Egypt has heightened tension and danger in the Middle East. He is likely to underline the dangerous distortion of the Middle East arms balance resulting from Soviet arms shipments and American supplies of arms to Iraq and Jordan.
The Ambassador is expected to underline the significance of United States shipments to Jordan because in the past, when Israel asked for American weapons to balance shipments to Iraq and Saudi Arabia the American reply was that the shipments were not going to states on Israel’s borders and that the U.S. would not send weapons to either side of the Israel border. Now that Washington has supplied Jordan with munitions, Israel must raise the question of the American attitude toward Israel’s defense needs, it was pointed out here.
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