Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov today demanded “the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Egyptian territory” and the payment of “full compensation’ to Egypt by Britain, France and Israel for damage caused during their invasion of Egypt.
The Soviet Minister voiced these demands in an address to the Supreme Soviet, the Parliament of the USSR. which is now in session in Moscow. He said that “it is upon the Government of Israel as well as on its sponsors that the entire responsibility will fall for the consequences which might follow further occupation of a part of Egyptian territory.”
Mr. Shepilov also reported at the session that the Soviet Government transmitted a six-point proposal to the Western Powers last night proposing that they and the Soviet Union cooperate in economic aid to the Middle East, maintain peace there by negotiations and otherwise keep hands off the area. At the same time, Mr. Shepilov lined up his government with Cairo’s demand that Egypt alone control and operate the Suez Canal. He said “law and justice are wholly on Egypt’s side.”
(In Washington, While House press spokesman James Hagerty today called the Soviet Union’s new Middle East proposals an obvious maneuver “to discredit or stop President Eisenhower’s anti-Communist program for that area.”)
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
