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Friday, April

1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH

B-G Ready to Go Israel Ready for Nasser Gives No Hint on Iraeli Compromise Plan
YORK, (JTA)—There ments, sounds tranquil. But Nas- invaded. This is the condition
to Cairo 'When Arab Peace T alks is NEW
no hint on the part of Col. ser's newspapers, Nasser's ra- then—fear, no trust, no confi-
z
dence, as long as Israel exists
of a compromise with dios and Nasser's own orations
Any Time Meir Nasser
all promise to "settle" the ques- there is a danger."
Nasser Invites'
Israel, C. L. Sulzberger, chief

Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion of Israel said he would
"definitely go to Cairo" to meet
with Egyptian President Nasser
"any time Nasser invites me."
In an interview published in
the new issue of Look Magazine,
Ben-Gurion declared he would
not hesitate to negotiate with
Nasser "as man to man" be-
cause "I have never thought of
him as a Hitler; I don't think he
would or could do what Hitler
did."
The 71-year-old Israeli leader
said he was willing to consider
an invitation to Israel to join
the United Arab Republic. The
offer was extended on a Cairo
broadcast in Hebrew recently.
"If they mean it seriously,"
Ben-Gurion said in Look, "we
are willing to consider the offer.
Personally, I think it was
merely propaganda. If they are
serious, why didn't they also
broadcast in Arabic so that
their own people would hear
it?"
Deploring the arms race in
the Middle East, Ben-Gurion
called for a complete disarma-
ment program in preference to
a Russian proposal to ban all
new weapons shipments to the
area.
A ban would leave the Arabs
with a tremendous superiority,
he pointed out, because "there
is no arms balance today."
"We would agree to complete
disarmament of Israel and all
the nations of the Middle East
— except for Turkey, which is
in a special situation . . . Of
course, to make general disarm-
ament effective, we would need
a very good system of inspec-
tion. But that's up to the Arabs;
we are ready to cooperate."
Ben-Gurion's comment in
Look on other subjects includ-
ed:
Establishment of diplomatic
relations with West Germany
—"Whenever Germany is
ready. There will be no dif-
ficulty here. Some people in
Israel oppose it, but they are
a minority. Why should we go
on hating the Germans — es-
pecially the new generation
who had nothing to do - with
the Hitler period?"
Reform Jews -- "Send me
10,000 Reform Jews, and I
can promise you they will
have their own synagogues
and rabbis. Let them try. They
will see that we have freedom
of religion here."
U.S. arms shipments to
Arab nations -- "You are
twice wrong — for sending
arms to them and for not
sending arms to us."

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel
is prepared to enter into peace
talks with any Arab state at any
time and place, regardless of
the internal regime of that
state, Foreign Minister Golda
Meir declared in Parliament at
the conclusion of the debate on
the Foreign Ministry budget.
Replying to critics who said
that Israel had failed to do
enough to improve relations
with the Soviet Union, Mrs.
Meir insisted that Israel had not
left unexplored the slightest
hint of a possible improvement
in relations with Moscow.
She recalled that as early as
1948, when she was Israel's
Minister to Moscow, she had
asked the Russians for commer-
cial credit, technical experts
and for an exchange of mu-
sicians and theater troupes. Not
a single one of her requests
were fruitful, she added.
Mrs. Meir hit out at the "two
great powers which brought
the Sinai campaign to the
United Nations in order to win
Nasser's friendship. "She de-
nied, as some deputies charged,
that the Sinai campaign had
been turned into a victory for
Nasser.
Earlier, Menachem Beigin of
the Herut scored the govern-
ment's "lack" of a foreign
policy, its trend toward "neu-
tralism" and unsuccessful cam-
paign to obtain "one-sided
guarantees" from the United
States.
He recommended Israel seek
mutually binding agreements
and try to win one from France,
where the people and govern-
ment were "ready to welcome
Israeli initiative."
Mrs. Meir arrived in Israel
from Paris where she paid a
courtesy call on French For-
eign Minister Christian Pineau.
She described her African
journey to her French counter-
part.
At a press conference, Mrs.
Meir reiterated Israel's de-
termination to assist the new
African states in their economic
development and said Israeli ex-
perts would soon be at work on
such projects.
She expressed great admira-
tion for the peoples she had
visited this month and urged
all the nations of the world to
assist them with their develop-
mental problems.
Ambassador Yaacov T s u r,
who accompanied Mrs. Meir on
her African tour, told newsmen
that a number. of African Min-
isters in the French territories
had been invited to visit Israel.
He described the popularity of
Mrs. Meir with the people of
French West Africa, the largest
portion of whom are Moslems.

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GENEVA, (JTA)—The United
Arab Republic's delegation at
the European headquarters of
the United Nations denied wide-
ly published reports that Presi-
dent Nasser and Israel Premier
David Ben-Gurion would hold
secret talks in Africa later this
year. "Completely unfounded"
was the UAR's description of
the report which appeared in
the Swiss press.
The report, which said Ben-
Gurion and Nasser would meet
in Ghana, was not taken seri-
ously by diplomatic observers
here even before the Arabs is-
sued their denial.

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Deny Report of
Rumored Nasser,
Ben-Gurion Talks

tion of Palestine some day.
Arabs interpret this to mean
Israel's eventual destruction,
Mr. Sulzberger states. He adds
that Nasser is undoubtedly
frightened of Israel, which al-
most smashed him once. He con-
siders Israel a permanent threat.
He claims its Herut party
elected deputies to Parliament
on a platform of expansion to
the Nile and the Euphrates.
"Ben-Gurion's policy is based
on settlement. But to force
peace means a war," the Times
correspondent quotes Nasser as
declaring. "And Israel needs
one million dollars help each
day just in order to exist. Sup-
pose this aid ceases? The result
will be expansion. Daily we wait
for news that Israel has again

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foreign correspondent of the
New York Times, reported fol-
lowing a talk with the Egyptian
ruler. "Nasser claims that he
once hoped to arrange an ac-
commodation with the Israelis,
but when Ben-Gurion raided
Gaza in 1955 he changed his
mind," Sulzberger said in his
cable from Cairo. He quotes
Nasser as stating:
"We know that aggression
cannot lead to any result. Ag-
gression can only be the begin-
ning of something. But nobody
can know where it will end. This
is no longer the old world in
which one was able to isolate
one portion and deal with it
apart. Any situation could cre-
ate global war. So our policy is
based upon peace and stability.
That is why we accepted the
United Nations Emergency
Force in Gaza."
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