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...that Egypt's Premier Nasser would find it hard to turn down such easy and astronomical money (roughly half of Egypt's gross national product). State was concerned likewise that neighboring Israel might be fanning up a new "get tough" policy after dismissing moderate Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett...
...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...
...tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier was ready to meet him and talk peace any time, anywhere. By the time he left, Izzat was wearing the floppy khaki hat that is the badge...