Israel Seethes Over Lavon Affair;
Ben-Gurion Not to Resign Position
JWV Profesfs Sfafe Department's Insisfence Upon
Security Council Seal for United Arab Republic
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Prime Minister Ben-Gurion that the "ap-
Minister Ben-Gurion does not in- propriate bodies" should consider
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
in the Security Council."
election to the Security Council.
tend to resign from the govern- whether the services of a regular
to The Jewish News
Feuer said, "Any nation which
(JTA reports from London
ment on account of "L'affaire army officer involved in the "La-
WASHINGTON — Election of
Lavon," a source close to the von Affair" should be retained. the United Arab Republic to the flouts Security Council and United that Britain and the United
Cabinet declared here. However, The regular officer, now a re- United Nations Security Council Nations decisions, which refuses Arab Republic have agreed to
the Premier was reported to have serve officer, neither of whom will not change the State Depart- to negotiate peace and continues resume diplomatic relations and
insisted to the Cabinet yesterday has been publicly identified, had ment's "well-known position con- to declare that it is at war with to re-establish their embassies,
that a special judicial commission been involved in charges of for- cerning the necessity for an Arab- another nation likewise a member thus ending the London-Cairo
be created to establish -the facts gery, perjury and subordination Israel peace settlement and the of the United Nations, clearly dispute that resulted from the
that led to the "unfortunate" of perjury in connection with the UAR's obligation to assure free- displays that kind of unreason- 1956 Suez crisis. The resump-
events in 1955 when Pinhas La- case. _
dom of transit to all nations able attitude which does not tion of diplomatic relations re-
von, now secretary-general of
through
the Suez Canal," Temple persuade to the idea that such sulted from negotiations con-
Although foreign correspond-
Israel's Federation of Labor, re-
Wanamaker,
director of public a nation merits election to the ducted between the Earl of
Home, Britain's Foreign Secre-
signcd from his post as Minister ents in Jerusalem were not per- services of the State Department Security Council."
mitted by the censorship to trans-
Commenting on the exchange tary, and Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi,
of Defense.
said
Tuesday.
mit the Attorney General's re-
of correspondence, State Depart-
Foreign Minister. At the
(With secrecy, due to security port, it was published exten-
Wanamaker, in a letter to Na- ment sources said that it was UAR
it was revealed that Harold
reasons, imposed in Israel in re- sively i
Commander I. L. Feuer of clear that the Department will UN
will be London's new
gard to details concerning the
War Veterans, said support the Nasser regime for Beely
11'0
Ambassador
to Cairo).
Lavon issues, London dispatc
eUARi
candidate for the
cha
ept radio press
reported today that it see
ncil seat,
aditionally, oc-
comrififfiications.
that members of Israe
fense
red by a Mi e Eastern state, Zionists List Groups For World Congress
forces may have " ieved in . The report recommended con- is the only c .idate for this
tinuation
of
the
investigation
into
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Zionist raelita Chile, Bundverband Kul-
1955 the oustin
a Defense
seat and is
-stood to have
sible forgeries, the e_ndorse
Minister who
ey *sliked." the question of
t of. the other organizations in 34 countries will turgemeinde Austria, all Scan-
The entire
, stated e Times holding th ommitte ad- Arab states.
e electibn is by send delegates to the World Zion- dinavian Jewish youth organiza-
b
. • re
Court
e secret bal
of Londo
has shoe
ael,
and under - General ist Congress to convene here in tions and the Federazione Gil-
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b
le Assembl
has bee
vanille Hebraica of Italy.
islane of
acy
ocedures is not pre-
plete t . Ijr.e.
re- ceded
in a
on where
itary
nomination dr discus- December, it was announced by
Those wishing to send fraternal
ort
• ed th
e investiga- sio
putsc
a frequent
candidates' qualifications." Zvi Lurie, member of the Jewish delegates were listed as the Com-
tion
e
completed
so
that
a
Agency
executive.
e JWV indicated disappoint-
Cabinet, it
munita Israelitische of hilly, the
fin
nclusion may be reached "
is
ent in the State Department
ting that it
In. 'addition, the following or- Board of Deputies of British Jews,
letter. Replying to Wanamaker, ganizations were reported wish- Conseil Representatif Juifs of
the
1 text of the eport of
JOSEPH S. WOHL,
ok- Commander Feuer said the JWV's ing to send associate delegates: France, Israelitischer Gemeinde-
spec
committee headed by
an of `primary concern" remained -a Associaciones Israelistes Argen- bund of Switzerland, the Cbuncil
Supr • e Court
stice Haim lyn, will serve as
ent cam- question of whether the United tinas, Comite Israelita Uruguay, of Australian Jewry, the Canadian
Cohn,
ich last
completed the national e
sh Theological States will actively oppose the Confederacao de Collectividad Is- Jewish Congress, and the World
a prob•to the - Lavon affair. paign of t
America.
election of the UAR to this seat raelita Brazilia, Collectividad Is- Sephardi Federation.
Ben-Gurio • as given the Cabinet Semi
only the op
of At
General Gideon ausner in re-
gard to that report.
"'!embers of the Cabinet re-
portedly feel, that while no
evidence of forgery has been pre-
sented in regard to the Lavon
events, the probe should be con-
tinued, since several witnesses,
now abroad, have not yet been
interrogated. Ben-Gurion insists,
however, that such continuance
of the probe should 'be under-
taken exclusively by a new judi-
cial commission, instead of by
the Foreign Affairs and Security
Committee of the Parliament.
The six-to-five vote in the
Israel Cabinet, Sunday, to pub-
lish the opinion of the Attor-
ney General on the Cohn Com-
mittee report in the Lavon af-
fair, cut across party lines,
according to the Jerusalem
Post. Four Mapai Party mem-
bers of the Cabinet voted for
publication of the report, and
two opposed publication. Prime
Minister David Ben - Gurion
and two other members of the
Cabinet abstained on the issue.
Attorney General Gideon
Hausner's report was pUblished
in the Israeli press but, so far,
foreign correspondents stationed
here have not been permitted by
the censorship to transmit dis-
patches reporting its contents.
Objections to publication were
reportedly based on indications
that there would be further in-
vestigations into the develop-
ments that forced the removal
of Lavon as Minister of Defense
in 1955. Lavon, now secretary-
general of Histadrut, the Israel
Federation of Labor, charged
that he had been the victim of a
plot by certain army officers, and
that forged documents and per
jured testimony had been used
to force his resignation.
The case has split Israel po-
litically from top to bottom. In
Mapai, the split has followed the
lines of the cleavage between the
veterans and the "young guard"
he was appointed to the Supreme Court
headed by Deputy Defense Min- "The law must still protect a man from
ister Shimon Peres, who is a things that rob him of his freedom, whether
by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
central figure in the case. Peres the oppressing force be physical, or of a
ESTABLISHED' 1 760
Here, for the next twenty-three years,
more
subtle
kind."
was director-general of the De-
he performed in a manner which will en-
fense Ministry when Lavon held
Thus spoke Louis Dembitz Brandeis
shrine his name forever with America's
the portfolio. Lavon's demand who sat in the seats of the mighty when
great Justices. He was a man for the times.
for the dismissal of Peres led to
For he, better than many of his contem-
his own resignation. Peres testi- Ameiica needed a dozen Solomons. For in
fied for two and a half hours the years of crisis, when this country was
poraries, recognized the fact that a chang-
Sunday before the Knesset Se- fighting its way out of a great depression,
ing country needed—indeed, must have
curity and Foreign Affairs Com- his philosophical point of view as ex-
—new laws to fit the changing times.
mittee, • which is seeking to in-- pressed from the Supreme Court bench
It is to the eternal credit of Louis
helped to guide us to a rebirth of con-
vestigate the affair.
SPRING
Brandeis that he, with Justice Oliver
fidence and prosperity.
Attorney General Points
Wendell
Holmes
beside
him,
always
to Possible Prosecutions
Louis Brandeis was born in Louisville,
insisted that the Supreme Court must
for Inducing Perjury
Kentucky in 1856, to parents who had
not shackle with dogmas of the past, the
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Attor- fled from Bohemia during the revolution
legislative efforts to meet the public needs.
ney General Gideon Hausner of Of 1848. After a distinguished law career.
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