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Plans for Establishment of Middle East Command Reported Shelved

January 29, 1952
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Plans for the formation of the proposed Middle East Command have been temporarily shelved, it was learned today, as American diplomacy finds itself lending total concentration on the prevention of further deterioration in the Egyptian crisis.

Informed sources said that although the situation is very fluid, the newly-appointed Egyptian Government is welcomed by the west because it is considered a movement in the right direction. The new government is depicted by government officials here as being less extreme than the coalition led by ousted Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha.

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