MIDDLE EAST: Toil & Trouble

The witches' cauldron of the Middle East boiled and bubbled last week:

¶Egypt and Syria signed a defensive military alliance directed against Israel, and set up a joint army command.

¶Five shiploads of arms from Communist countries were reported to have arrived in Alexandria, Egypt.

¶Yemen announced that it was negotiating a "friendship pact" with the U.S.S.R.

¶Israel's Premier Moshe Sharett appealed to world Jewry for funds to buy arms, raised $1,000,000 in the first week of a local Israeli campaign for donations to buy more weapons. In the Knesset, former Terrorist...

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