MONTGOMERY TO FIND NEW BASES
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Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m. LOXDON, June 5. Field-Marshal Montgomery is flying to kgypt on Jiinc 9 to stndy the military situation in the /Iiddle Ikist and find new bases to rt'phtee those relint|iiis-hed in Egypt, says the Dailv Mail's Cairo eorrespondent. tte will be eoneerned pureiy with military matters and is not partieipating in the Anglo-Egyptian talks. 1 1 is task will involve a review of the sti'ategic situation from Cyprus to East Afriea and from Libva to Somaliland. Many highranking- offieers in tlie Midclle East believe Britain's mairi base should be transl'erred to East Al'riea where there are good communiealions. a port and abundant. labour. # An East Afriean l)ase would have tlie 1'ollowiug additional advantages: Eirstlv. it would be separated by a thousand miles of desert from the potentiai atomic bases of Europe and Asia. Secondly, it would be liandy for the Cape route should the /lediterraneau again beeome daugerous.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 June 1946, Page 5
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