Egyptian War Minister Maj. Gen. Amer, now visiting Moscow severely attacked Israel last night at a reception at the Egyptian Embassy in the Soviet capital attended by Soviet government leaders, including the new Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky.
Terming Israel “a tool of imperialism, ” the Egyptian War Minister–according to a Moscow broadcast today–said that Egypt was strong now and was acting “to defend the Arab states against imperialism. ” Marshal Malinovsky, in a toast to the Egyptian Minister pledged that the Soviet Union would supply arms to Egypt “whenever she needed them to defend itself, ” the Moscow broadcast said.
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