The Manchester Guardian reported from Tel Aviv that a growing body of opinion in Israel is reluctantly veering toward the conclusion that a preventive war against Egypt may become unavoidable if the Western Powers–particularly the United States–fail to answer Premier Moshe Sharett’s plea for arms to offset the Communist arms supplies going to Egypt.
The Knesset debate on the security situation showed that Mr. Sharett was still in a position of acknowledged leadership, the dispatch said, “but he, too, is driven toward considering now what might have to be done if the Western Powers should refuse to offset Egypt’s gain in military might by sending many more armaments to Israel.”
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