Egypt’s Plans To Meet Suez Canal Decision
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 pan.) LONDON, August 29. Reuter’s correspondent tit Alexandria says that the Arab League Cuiimiittee is expected to take countermeasures to-day if the United Nations Security Council condemns Egypt’s blockade of shipping bound for Israel through the Suez Canal, z Arab political circles say that one measure will be aimed at stopping the supplies of oil to the British-owned oil refinery at Haifa, in Israel, The League States would demand that foreign oil companies, which operate concessions on their territory, put an end to oil shipments to Haifa.
Egypt is understood to have asked other League members to join her in protesting to the International Court at The Hague that some Security Council members—Britain, the United States, France, and Holland—had not the right to vote on the canal shipping question because, as maritime nations, they are parties to the dispute.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 7
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