FUTURE OF JORDAN

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27929, 28 March 1956, Page 13

FUTURE OF JORDAN

“Drifting Into Cairo Camp” (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON. March 27. “Although spoke .men in Jordan insist that their country remain free of all political ties or entanglements, many observers elsewhere feel that Jordan is being eased little by little into the Cairo ca o.” says the Cairo correspondent oi “The Times."

“King Hussein, naving refußed an invitation to the Arab Big Three in Cairo, and having failed in his efforts to promote a round-table conference of the Arab Heads of State in Amman, is now embarking on a series of visits to the Arab capitals, hoping, no doubt, not only to bea] breaches but also to save his throne.

“All in all. it seems likely that Jordan will be oersuadr-d to establish much closer relations with Egypt, if not to make formrl ac-herence to the Cairo-Damascus-Jedoah alliance.

“If anyone still supposes that Colonel Nasser has not the means within Jordan to i fleet the course of that countrv s >licv he has only to ' read the interview he ga”e the Arab News Agency, in .vhich he said that Britain had h’okcn a promise to Egypt when sh» tried to bring Jordan into the Rag r* Pact, and that Egypt was forced to fight against all efforts to bring her into it. “Indeed, ‘hrnugl out this revealing J tatement he seems to have spoken as ■ plough already stablished as the ■ spokesman for. and the leader of all fl Arabs." A