Nikita Khruschev, Soviet Communist Party leader, was quoted here today as declaring that Soviet policy “cannot be pro-Arab or anti-Israel.” He made this statement to Harold Wilson, Laborite member of the British Parliament and former president of the Board of Trade, who visited Moscow.
Mr. Wilson, reporting his talk with the Soviet leader in the London Observer, said that Mr. Khruschev agreed that in his last speech he had spoken “against Israel.” This was simply because Israel was playing “an unpleasant role” in Middle Eastern affairs. “But it is, of course, a state like all other states…It is made up of all levels, there are the peasants, the workers, the administrators, etc,” Mr. Khruschev said so far as policies are concerned, the policies being pursued by the Arab states meet with greater approval from the Soviet Union than do those being presently pursued by Israel. Mr. Wilson noted.
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