Religious Bloc in Israel Neglects to Act
on Joining Coalition Under Ben-Gurion
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
• JERUSALEM — The central
-committee of the National Reli-
gious Party adjourned a second
session late Monday night without
a definite decision on whether to
join a narrow coalition under Pre-
mier Ben-Gurion, postponing the
issue until it meets again on
Thursday.
National Religious Party Cabi-
net ministers have been instruct-
ed to contact partners in the out-
going coalition to attempt to in-
duce them to reconstitute the
same coalition under Premier
Ben-Gurion.
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on inspecting voters registers to
see that all party members are
eligible to participate in an elec-
tion.
The Mapai secretariat Tues-
day reaffirmed its mandate
to Ben-Gurion to form a new
government and announced
that either Ben-Gurion will
form a government or Mapai
would advise President Ben-
Zvi to call new elections.
Herut, spurred by the estab-
lishment of a "liberal bloc"
within the Histadrut by the
General Zionists and the prog-
ressives, announced its intention
of opening talks with these two
parties as well as with th
National Religious Party w
a view to establish a Natick
Religious Front." Little ch
is seen here for the succe
such a move.
Efforts by leaders of
Since Mapam, Achdut Avoda
and the Progressives have al-
ready declared their unwilling-
neSs to join any coalition under
Ben-Gurion, the latest move by
the NRP central committee was
seen here as a compromise mea-
National Religious Part
sure between the party faction induce
other former coali
headed by its cabinet ministers partners
to rejoin a n
and other high government offi- coalition under
Ben-Gurion
cials who favor joining even a
reported Wednesday to
narrow coalition under Ben-Guri- were
have had no success.
on, and the kibbutz and intelli-
Two ministers in the cabinet
gentsia faction of the party who which Ben-Gurion ended Jan.
favor a broad coalition without 31 by resigning—Moshe Shapiro
Ben-Gurion.
and Dr. Joseph Burg—met with
While Mapai circles hailed Mon- . leaders of the Mapai and the
day night's NRP move as a step Progressive Party. They
toward partnership in a narrow reiterated Ben-Gurion's argu-
coalition, members of the reli- ments that both security needs
gious party admit that had a vote and the political situation made
been taken Monday night on the necessary a wide, rather than
issue there would not have been a small coalition, and the avoid-
a majority in favor of joining ance of new general elections.
a Ben-Gurion coalition.
Both Mapai and Progressive
In a move to prepare itself for Party leaders told the two
the eventuality of general . elec- religious front leaders that
tions, the Mapai secretariat called there was no change their
on all local branches to suspend position that they were read
routine activities and concentrate to join a new coalition w
Accuse Swedish Red Cross of Naz
Collaboration in Second World - W
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to The Jewish News)
PARIS — A former member
of the Belgian cabinet has ac-
cused the Swedish Red Cross
of cooperating with the Nazis
during the Second World War
in transporting inmates from
one concentration camp to an-
other.
Oscar Behogne, member of
the Belgian Christian Social
Party, in a letter to the Belgian
paper La Libre Belgique, said
that while he was a prisoner in
N e u n g a m m e Concentration
Camp, Swedish Red Cross cars
and ambulances entered the
camp.
,• "We thought that the Swedish
Red Cross was coming to tak
us in charge and lead us to
Sweden where we would be
taken care of and eventually
repatriated," Behogne declared.
The former minister said,
however, that Red Cross vehicles
brought them to another con-
centration camp, Wattensted in
Brunswick, where they were
handed over to SS guards.
The letter to the paper, the
former minister said, was writ-
ten "not in order to diminish
the humanitarian role played by
the Swedish Red Cross, but in
order to give a true testimony
of some of the facts unknown
20 years after the war."
Arabs Pressure Dutch Interests
to Stop Ex • • Trade with Israel
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to
eletype Wire
wish News)
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hers f e Dutch Parliamei
ex • ess d their anxiety Tuesd
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Luns to
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Milan ' Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
reject the demands by the
UAR and to pr o v i d e credit
facilities for Dutch exporters
trading with Israel. Israel am-
bassador Hanan Cidor was pres-
ent in the house while the de-
bate was in progress.
The Van Ommeren Shipping
Co. of Rotterdam, meanwhile,
Tuesday yielded to UAR pres-
sure and decided to terminate
its arrangement with the Zim
Israel Shipping Company where-
by it represented the Haifa firm
in the Netherlands. The UAR
had threatened to close the
Suez Canal to Dutch tankers.
Ben-Gurion's Mapai provided
Ben - Gurion' was the prime
minister. They added that the
security considerations current-
ly cited by Ben-Gurion should
have prevented him from creat-
ing a cabinet crisis in the first
place.
Considerable opposition was
developing within Mapai against
any far-reaching concessions to
the religious party to obtain
their participation in a small
coalition.
inst TV, Radio De
ation
WASHINGTON TA)—Rep. I Hons." He called on
enter-
Victor L. Anf , New York tainment industry t
n house
Democrat, intr used a House
izations
bill that woul amend the Fed- of to
oes, and
eral Commu ations Act to
ers.
make it "u wful" for an4
television or
dio station to
portray "any
ious group,
race, or nationalit
JEWELERS
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Authorized Hamilton
Rep. Anfuso said telecasts
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•
he ouster of Pinhas
Lavon as secretary-general of
the Histadrut, Israel's Labor
Federation.
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Committee after representatives
of the General Zionists, the
Mapam and the Herut submit-
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The motions asserted that when
students demonstrated against
the Lavon ouster, police plain-
clothesmen joined Mapai party
ushers to . disperse the crowd.
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