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Israel. In an hour-long interview Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban sought to persuade Dulles that Premier David Ben-Gurion's dismissal of moderate Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett did not mean a return to the policy of answering Arab raids with reprisals-in-force. State, unconvinced, thinks that news reports quoting Ben-Gurion as having threatened Jordan with armed retaliation (in defiance of the U.N. armistice agreement) for border raids indicate the fiery Premier's thinking more clearly than Eban does...
...single man," said Israel's testy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week of his longtime Cabinet Partner Moshe Sharett, "is so obviously fitted for the task of Foreign Minister." With this glowing tribute the Prime Minister promptly fired Sharett from the job he had held since Israel's founding...
Israel's volatile, visionary Premier and his painstaking, cautious and pedantic Foreign Minister have persistently irritated each other since the day when Sharett shivered and Ben-Gurion bubbled at the prospect of proclaiming a new Jewish state. Since then Sharett, who took time last week even in the middle of his resignation speech to correct a misspelling in his notes, has occupied himself with tempering Ben-Gurion's most headstrong policies. It was Sharett who successfully fought "B.-G.'s" plan to attack Gaza after the Arab murder of praying schoolchildren in Shafrir (TiME, April...
Sharett's successor, bustling, Russian-born, Milwaukee-bred Golda Myerson is only the second woman in history to head a nation's foreign ministry (the first: Rumania's Communist virago Ana Pauker). She is expected to keep the place tidy and to give Ben-Gurion no trouble...
...Sharett left Ben-Gurion's office, the chauffeur of his black Chrysler sprang to attention and began to open the door. Moshe Sharett shook his head violently, clasped the chauffeur's hand in farewell, and without a backward glance walked home to lunch...