Word: sharett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reporting to his fellow Israeli Parliamentarians last week, former Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett was full of the snubs he and two colleagues had received at a recent meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Bangkok. "An atmosphere of isolation such as I have never experienced at any international conference surrounded the Israeli delegation," said Sharett. Not only the Arabs and neutralist Asians but U.S. and European delegates gave him the cold shoulder, said Sharett. One Norwegian told him: "I'm sympathetic to your problems, but we Norwegians don't want atom bombs dropping on us because...
...were many in Israel too (and among U.S. Zionists) who argued that Israel had to learn to live peacefully with its neighbors if it was to survive as a nation. In 1953 Ben-Gurion suffered an election setback and retired to a pioneer desert community. Into office went Moshe Sharett, a modest, cautious lawyer who made some effort to diminish Arab hostility, to settle the problem of the 900,000 Palestinian refugees, to let some of them back into Israel and to join with Arab states in diverting Jordan water to desert land on which refugees could build new homes...
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...
...moment of his leaving, Sharett's policy of moderation had apparently failed: Israel has not succeeded in arguing a single jet aircraft out of the U.S. or gaining any effective support in the U.N. Security Council. His departure does not necessarily presage a new, tough foreign policy, but it will undoubtedly produce a new tone...
...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...