Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-16
West Europe Socialists
Reject Khrushchev Bid

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LONDON. Oct. iG CR. :
Leaders Of Western Europe
Socialists turned q cold shoul
der today to Nikita S. Khru'
shchev's invitation for an ALL
ance against talleged Unites
States Turkish threats to at
tack Syria.
Mr.. Khrushchev's appeal wa
the second dramatic movl
within three days to back VI
the Syrian charges against
Turkey and the United States
Egypt's President Nasser senI
troops to Syria Sunday.
Writing as the Soviet
Communist Party chief. Mr.
Khrushchey sent almost iden-
teal letters to seven West Eu.
ropean Socialist parties. HI
declared "imperialist Western
oil companies created the Syr-
ian crisis and that the United
States and Turkey threaten
aggression.
Syria would not be left Il
defend itself alone II it were
attacked. Mr.. Khrushchev said
as he called for the Socialists
to work with the Communist
for Middle East peace.
Socialist Leaders Cool
Socialist leaders in and out
Of power received the overture
coolly.
British Labor Party Leader
Hugh Gaitskell hurried to No
10 Downing street to talk with
Conservative Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan. Mr.. Gait
skell then sent Russia q note
saying that it should 60 to the
United Nations II it wished tc
argue its charges.
The London Daily Herald. the
Labor Party newspaper. de-
scribed the Khrrshehev appeal
as insincere and objected to it,
being made over the heads Of
governments to opposition par
ties.
Reactions also were unfavor-
able In Norway and Denmark,
which have Socialist govern
ments.
Danish Socialists withheld
full comment until the party's
executive committee could
meet. But q party statement
said the Danish Socialists in
the past had "unreservedly
condemned any aggression--in-
GLIDING the attack by North
Korea. the Suez action and the
Soviet Intervention in Hun
gary"
NoFwegians Reject
Norwegian Socialists said
they had rejected the Russian
bid because the party did not
want to conduct foreign policy
independently Of the govern
ment.
Dutch Labor Party sources
described the Khrushchev APP
peal as pure propaganda re-
fiecting the well known Soviet
views on the Middle East"
In Damascus, meanwhile. the
Syrian Foreign Ministry sum-
moned foreign diplomats to tell
them Turkey plans to launch
o premeditated action against
Syria"
Acting Foreign Minister
Khalil Kallas said to repre-
sentatives Of 10 nations-in-
Guiding the United States
that he had been notified Of
increased Turkish military con-
centrations on the Syrian bor-
der.
But an Egyptian Embassy
spokesman in .Ankara, Turkey.
Abdul Settah Mahmud, said he
did not believe Turkish troops
had concentrated on the Syr-
ian border. He said Israel was
the only country which might
attack Syria.
Saud Reported Angry
The New York Times report
ed that King Saud is angry and
perturbed about Egypt's dis
patch Of troops to Syria with
out informing the other Arab
states in advance. King Saud
was particularly concerned be-
cause Saudi Arabia Is the third
partner with Egypt and Syria
In a Joint military command.
A Times dispatch from Bel
nut. where the King is visiting.
said the Egyptian action was
widely regarded in Arab cir
cles as an effort by President
Canal Abdel Nasser to get the
spotlight for himself without
considering the true interests
Of the Arabs"
A responsible Middle East
diplomat" was quoted as saying
that from the general Arab
viewpoint. the Egyptian action
was outright sabotage" and
"provocation TO Turkey"
In Beirut, however. King
eaud's adviser. Jamal Husseini,
said the monarch approved in
advance the Egyptian troop
move.
Those reports" Husseini