The tense Israel-Jordan situation once again became the subject of a debate in the British House of Commons this afternoon when Maj. E.A. Legge-Bourke, a Conservative M.P., asked whether the British Government intended to raise in the United Nations the question of “Israeli raids” on Jordan villages.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Selwyn Lloyd, who disputed some of the casualty figures offered by Maj. Legge-Bourke, said that the British envoy in Tel Aviv had made representations to the Israel Government over the border incidents, while the British envoy at Amman had “counselled caution” on the part of Jordan.
Labor M.P. Anthony Greenwood asked the government to seize this opportunity to remind the Arab states that they had resisted attempts at bringing about peace and that this was also the time for the British Government to halt its policy of supplying the Arab states with arms. Labor M.P. Barnett Janner rose to point out that in connection with the Israel-Jordan incidents it would be well to remember the continuing Arab depredations against Israel.
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