Information received here today indicates that Israeli-Syrian negotiations for an armistice will be halted by Gen. Husni Al-Zaim, commander of the Syrian Army and gendarmerie, who seized power in Damascus today after arresting all the members of the present government.
Al-Zaim was described here today by a personal friend as being personally Seditious and having strong left-wing tendencies. A British Foreign Office official said that Al-Zaim has had such a checkered career and had shown accommodation to so many causes that it would be perilous to try to forecast his intentions. He pointed cut that Al-Zaim had played a prominent role with the Vichy French in Syria before occupation of that country by Allied forces and later had switched to the Free French movement.
The Trans Jordanian legation here, which is in direct contact with Amman, reported tonight that Amman expects Al-Zaim to call on either Trans Jordan’s Arab Legion or the Iraqi Army to aid him in establishing a new regime in Syria.
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