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. 1 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 (Direct JTA Teletype Wire 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 (Direct to eletype Wire wish News) TH E—Liberal me hers f e Dutch Parliamei ex • ess d their anxiety Tuesd ecent dema the Uni ab Rep ce n utch e se t ing ith Isr The depu es calle • on For- n M . Cr Jo Luns to OU TURN THE UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T FIND A FINER WINE THAN rada, , r d," 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 ing manner." Authorized Hamilton Rep. Anfuso said telecasts Watch Sales & Service and broadcasts were casting Livernois UN 1-8184 slurs on members of minority 18963 OPEN THURS. TO 9 P.M. groups — "all sorts of reflec- OHRENSTEIN K et Rebukes lice for Handling of Pr ds SEE JER ) — Is- rael's mister a reb • to Israel police ficials or the behavior of ice in dispersing crowds gath- ered at the Ohe eater in Tel Aviv on 4 when the' apai Committee met • he ouster of Pinhas Lavon as secretary-general of the Histadrut, Israel's Labor Federation. The rebuke consisted of sub- mitting the issue to a House Committee after representatives of the General Zionists, the Mapam and the Herut submit- ted motions on the police action. The motions asserted that when students demonstrated against the Lavon ouster, police plain- clothesmen joined Mapai party ushers to . disperse the crowd. The mot 'ned a char::- at the plain clothes- wielded hi inst the no ler demo strators. Polic M • ister B • h Shitre t t seven pl e amo t u me ice who used atons and greed that all persons rting to establish or ld be identi- public. 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