The Egyptian semi-official daily, Al Ahram, asserted in an issue arriving here today, that President Nasser of the United Arab Republic warned Robert Murphy, President Eisenhower’s special Middle East envoy, that the UAR would “immediately attack Israel” if Israel moved against any part of Jordan.
Al Ahram, which is known to reflect Col. Nasser’s views, asserted that the Murphy-Nasser meeting in Cairo last week was concerned mainly with the presumed intentions of Israel in the event of a change in the regime in Jordan. The Egyptian newspaper also declared that Mr. Murphy expressed the belief that, in such an event, an Israel anxious for her security would occupy certain parts of Jordan. According to the newspaper, it was in response to this warning that Col. Nasser issued his threat.
The official Cairo radio meanwhile, as monitored here, stepped up its anti-Western and anti-Israel campaign, developing the theme that the Western Powers had committed their “most heinous crime” in 1948 when they created Israel. A commentator was monitored as saying that “the Arabs will never forgive them for this.”
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