“There will be no further war if the Arab world does not will it,” Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister of Israel, declared today in an interview with Cyrus L. Sulzberger, chief European correspondent of the New York Times.
Mr. Sharett warned of the “danger of a vicious circle” of rearmament which has been set off in the Middle East by Egypt and other Arab nations. He said that the Arabs cannot keep insisting that they want peace but continue to refuse to negotiate a peace with Israel. He called on the Arab League, which is due to meet in Cairo this Saturday, to make peace with the Jewish state through direct negotiations.
The Times also reports today from Cairo that “certain member states of the Arab League are considering a proposal to expel Jordan because of her alleged contacts with Israel during and after the Palestine war.” The Times dispatch quotes as its source the party organ of the Wafd, which currently controls the Egyptian Government.
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