Red Star, official daily paper of the Soviet ##, today published an article stating that the $100,000,000 loan to Israel by the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the American Government’s de jure recognition of Israel ### Transjordan are nothing but part of a deal reached between British and American monopolists” to work “behind the back of the United Nations” with a view towards ?reating an anti-Soviet Near Eastern bloc and “convert the Middle East into a military ##ase for Anglo-American imperialism.”
An analysis of potential conflicts in the Middle East is given in a new pamphlet by the Soviet historian, V.B. Lutski, published here under the title “English and American Imperialism in the Near East.” The author sees Palestine as the most important link in Anglo-American plans to use the Middle East as “a springboard to attack the Soviet Union.” The United States “has strengthened its ties with Jewish bourgeois nationalists” in order to convert the Jewish part of Palestine into an American spring-##rd for penetration elsewhere in the Middle East, the author says.
Declaring that the United States is gaining the upper hand in the “imperialist control” of the Middle East, and that Britain is playing second fiddle, the Soviet author does not encourage the view that a lasting peace can be expected in the Middle East immediately. Similar views are expressed also in the Soviet press.
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