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...announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...
...arms, said Ben-Gurion, if the U.S. failed to provide them, the Israelis might be forced to look elsewhere for them-presumably Russia. Soviet Ambassador Abramov spent part of last week in close conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Sharett. The meeting, said a government spokesman darkly, was "of prime importance...
...Israel, the U.N.'s soft-spoken Secre-tary-General ran into a brief flurry of newspaper criticism when he declined to attend a reception given by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, because it. was to be held in the Israeli-held part of Jerusalem, which Jews now make their capital in defiance of a 1947 U.N. resolution recommending that Jerusalem be internationalized...
Says Nasser of Ben-Gurion: "I have the impression that he is responsible for it. It was not that way when Sharett was running Israel. Sharett is not a cruel man, and it may be that he is a reasonable man. But Ben-Gurion is under the idea that terror must be raised, and he speaks only of force-of forcing a settlement on the Arabs...
...compensation for the 900,000 Arab refugees who fled Palestine during the 1948 war and have been encamped in unspeakable bitterness and misery around Israel's borders ever since. Their plight is the Arabs' most effective moral case against Israel. "Israel is not prepared under any circumstances," Sharett reiterated last week, "to return and resettle refugees." His previous offer to accept 100,000 Arab refugees is now withdrawn...