Soviet Arms For Syria
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. The Secretary for Commonwealth Relations (Lord Home) said today that the -Government believed that military technicians and advisers from the Soviet bloc had been arriving in Syria in recent months to train the Syrian forces in the use of equipment with which they had been supplied. He was answering Lord Dundee, a Conservative, who asked in the House of Lords for a statement on the “progress of the build-up of Communist armaments in Egypt and Syria.”
Lord Home said that after the Suez crisis, in which Egypt lost considerable quantities of arms supplied by the Soviet bloc, Soviet ships were widely reported to have resumed deliveries to both Egypt and Syria. Shipments to Syria were certainly resumed in December, and were reported to have been resumed to Egypt by February, if not earlier. “The Government is not in a position to confirm reports of renewed deliveries to Egypt, but equally we have no reason to doubt them,” he added.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 9
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