Britain Not Using Marshall Aid To Help Arab Armies

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 May 1948, Page 5

Britain Not Using Marshall Aid To Help Arab Armies

Recd. 7.20 p.m. London, May 24. London comment on the United States Congresional Committee inquiry as to whether Britain is using Marshall aid to help Arab armies, and to unofficial American demands that Britain should “stop supplying arms to Arab countries ’ is that Britain thus far has not received any Marshall Plan aid and that any war material from Britain to Arab countries is sent only under a treaty of contractual obligations, says the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Britain, under the Transjordan Treaty, has contracted to help train King Abdullah's army. Treaty provisions for mutual military help cannot be applied because it has not been decided whether Transjordan is at war and neither Transjordan nor Britain recognised Israel as a State. Deploring the divergence of British and United States policies over Palestine, “The Times” says appropriate resolution by the U.N.O. Security Council would justify withdrawal of British officers from action in Palestine without exposing Britain to charges of breach of faith; and the delivery of British arms tc Arab countries wou’d follow automatically from a United States decision to cut off military supplies from all countries.