UN General Assembly
1957

100. I should like to discuss an incident recently reported in the world Press. After Mr. Henderson had returned to Washington on the completion of his special mission, the State Department made a great fuss about the allegedly dangerous situation which had developed in Syria. Who was endangered? According to official statements from Washington, Syria's neighbours, including Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, were alarmed, and on this basis a variety of American arms was immediately flown to them in military aircraft. But shortly afterwards official spokesmen of Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq announced that their countries considered that the developments in Syria were a purely domestic matter and said that the arms received would in no circumstances be used in a fratricidal war.