Israel today made known to the State Department its “sense of grave concern” over recent aggressive military actions by Syria, an Israel spokesman announced. Because of the gravity of the situation, Israel Ambassador Abba Eban will confer tomorrow with United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in New York.
Israel circles said today that their apprehension that continued Western refusal to sell arms to Israel would increase the war danger has been fulfilled by Increased hostility from Syria, Jordan, and Egypt., These circles feel that should this tension erupt into warfare the biggest single cause will be the failure to sell vital military equipment to Israel. The Western attitude has encouraged Arab hostility, in the Israel view. The United States has not taken action on a single item on the Israel arms list, Israel circles reported.
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