A report reaching here today from Cairo say that leaders of the Arab states are contemplating a meeting to re-examine their position on the Palestine Arab refugees.
Another report said that Gerhard Mertins, veteran of the German air invasion of Crete and battalion commander during the Nazi 1945 offensives in western Europe, is now teaching specially selected Egyptian units the art of parachute jumping and attack.
The report added that German officers serving with the Egyptian Army are preparing a memorandum on re-training and re-equipping the Egyptian military with a view to adapting it to the German Army’s system of 1933. The central feature of this system was to train small groups of less than company strength to handle a few modern available weapons in preparation for the time when the group’s size can be expanded.
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