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Friendly Nasser. In Cairo the inventor of "positive neutrality" was going through an odd phase. The controlled Cairo press of President Nasser accused the U.S. of plotting with Lebanon's Charles Malik and Israel's David Ben-Gurion to sell out Palestine's refugees to Israel. It accused the U.S. of massing troops behind Turkey's southeastern border to invade Syria. It said that the U.S. has loosed 4,000 agents in the Middle East to destroy Arab nationalism. It reported that a U.S. diplomat in New Delhi tried to steal the Taj Mahal jewels...
...second edition of its 26-part Wisdom series, NBC presented a perceptive glimpse of Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 70, in his Tel Aviv library. Notable quote from the man who built a new country: "I'm living in a house and I know I built it. I work in a workshop which was constructed by me. I speak a language which I developed. And I know I shape my life according to my desires by my own ability. I feel I am safe. I can defend myself. I am not afraid. This is the greatest...
...Palestine war without the arms which Soviet-satellite Czechoslovakia sold them. Moscow and Washington tumbled over each other to be the first to recognize the new state the day it proclaimed itself a nation (the U.S. won), and the telegram of congratulations that Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion later sent Stalin on his 70th birthday remains one of the least attractive passages in Israel's diplomacy...
Open House. Though an Israeli official dismissed Khrushchev's hint as "too hypothetical to consider," his government is officially dedicated to the proposition that it welcomes all Jews, and Israel is sentimentally committed in particular to Russia's Jews, since Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and many other Israeli leaders were born in Russia. When Ben-Gurion said last August: "The survival and peace of the state of Israel require the addition of at least 2,000,000 Jews in the near future," he was thinking of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews-because nowhere else...
...said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...