Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian dictator, has warned the Syrian Government to tone down threats against Israel and not to commit itself to military action if the Israelis resume work on the Bnot Yaakov project, Sefton Delmer, chief foreign correspondent of the London Daily Express, reported today from Damascus.
The correspondent said that Nasser had warned Premier Ghazzi of Syria that Egypt would not be able to come to its did if Syria got involved as Egypt must first build up its prosperity. Syrians, he said, regarded the Egyptian warning as a “betrayal.” The Egyptian dictator is now “on his best behavior,” the correspondent said, in order to obtain more British and American money for the Aswan dam project.
Twin-jet Russian IL-28 bombing planes are being assembled at Almaza, Egypt, at the rate of about one per week, the authoritative magazine “Aviation Week,” reported today. The magazine said Egypt has already received about 30 of these bombers from Czechoslovakia. Approximately 12 have been assembled to date and placed on duty with the Egyptian Air Force.
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