Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser believes that war with Israel is “imminent,” according to Al Ahram, a leading Cairo newspaper, received here today. Al Ahram printed an interview Nasser had given to a correspondent for the Indian left-wing newspaper, Blitz, in which the Egyptian president was quoted as saying; “There is no escaping another war in Palestine. I expect it at any moment.”
Nasser warned against intervention in an Arab-Israeli war by the Western Powers, saying; “It is necessary to realize that, if the Western allies of Israel threaten the Arabs with action or sanctions as they did during the Suez affair in 1956, we can cut off supplies from hostile nations, nationalize their oil refineries and installations, and even take over the oil wells. We could also halt their rights of aviation over flights and, thus, cut Africa off from Europe.”
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