Word: ben-gurion
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Into the Balance. Even as Dulles spoke of peace and a bright future, the dusty streets of Israel echoed to the tread of reservists reporting for induction, of roaring dispatch riders, of rolling convoys of armored vehicles. Israel was declaring "partial mobilization," said Premier David Ben-Gurion, "to safeguard the security of Israel's borders." The armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia stood bound by treaty to serve together under overall Egyptian command in the event of an Israeli...
Urgently, President Eisenhower sought to head off a conflict. He fired off a personal message to Ben-Gurion expressing "my grave concern," warning him against any "forceful initiative . . . which would endanger the peace." The Administration kept congressional leaders informed of the fast-racing developments. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reminded a national TV audience that the U.S. was committed (by the 1950 tripartite pact with Britain and France) to fight any aggressor in the Middle East "if it is real aggression," but that the U.S. purpose was to "try to talk everybody into being reasonable." The State Department warned...
Israel, however, had no intention of allowing Jordan to fall into Iraqi hands. If Iraqi troops enter Jordan, warned Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion pointedly, "Israel will reserve freedom of action." In the inflamed and credulous Middle East there were many who thought war was about to break...
...Oriental children had no idea what the Hebrew words for exercise book, pencil, eraser or ruler are. When the teacher asked, "What kind of grown-up uses a pencil?" the Europeans shouted, "Poet . . . official . . . bank clerk . . ." But all the little Orientals could think of to say was "Ben-Gurion," for they had never heard of a bank clerk or a poet. As a matter of fact, in their first six years of life, they had absorbed almost nothing. Gradually, they stopped trying to answer any questions...
...Israeli archaeologists near the border, killing four and wounding 17. The Israeli government had stiffly rejected the official Jordan explanation that a soldier had gone suddenly berserk and fired, and that afternoon the Israeli radio had announced an emergency meeting between Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...