EGYPT AND BRITAIN
Reported Wish Of Nasser (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 2. President Nasser of Egypt was eager to restore diplomatic relations with Britain, the “New York Times’’ reported today from Cairo, but was in no hurry to repair the break with France. The Cairo dispatch, by Homer Bigart. quoted informed sources as saying that Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Mr Mahmoud Fawzi, had been having quiet exchanges with the British in* the United Nations on the resumption of relations. It said that President Nasser was described as wanting to bring British-Egyptian affairs back to normal, mainly for economic reasons. As for the French, the Egyptian leader was said to see no immediate need for restoring relations. Bigart quoted an Arab diplomat as commenting at the end of the four-natipn Arab Conference last Wednesday: “The British he merely distrusts, the French he loathes.” '
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28217, 4 March 1957, Page 9
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