Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party Seeks Partners
in New Coalition; Liberals Reject Herut
JERUSALEM — The Secre-
tariat of Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party will
meet today to name a commit-
tee which will formally start
talks with other parties aimed
at exploring prospects for a
new coalition government.
Ben-Gurion and other Mapai
and Israel Labor Federation
leaders met Sunday in Jeru-
salem to discuss the question.
It appeared that while the final
decision was left to the party
Secretariat, majority opinion
favored a wide coalition with
a Mapai majority in the next
cabinet.
Political observers suggest-
ed that Mapai insistence on
a cabinet majority might
make impossible a coalition
which would include both t
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negotiations had not yet been Herut's deputy chairman, Arie
started and Ben-Gurion has not Ben-Eliezer, expressed "disap-
indicated his views.
pointment" on behalf of his
The Liberal Party turned party, asserting that Herut
down the proposal of the Herut would continue to strive for
Party for the formation of a formation of such a partner-
Liberal-Herut parliamentary ship. Such a bloc, he said,
bloc in the next Knesset.
would be "the only alternative
At a meeting that lasted to Mapai."
several hours Sunday, leaders
A suggestion has been made
of the Liberal Party and Lib- by the National Religious Party
erals elected to the Knesset that the next coalition be led
in the national elections, Aug. by a 15-member Cabinet which
15, voted that formation of a would include eight portfolios
bloc like the one proposed by for Mapai, three for the Lib-
Herut would be "a betrayal erals, two for the religious
of the voters, who did not group, and one each for Mapam
give us a mandate to enter and Achdut Avodah.
into such a partnership."
The prevailing sentiment in-
The vote to reject the Herut side the party seems to be that
offer was almost unanimous. a wide coalition should be
Only Moshe Nissim, a Liberal formed, but that a majority of
to the Knesset, voted the portfolios be held by mem-
the Herut proposal. bers of Mapai.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —
Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, the UN
Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion's special representative to
the Middle East, who will ex-
plore possibilities of progress
in the PCC's program for a
solution of the Arab refugee
problem, on Tuesday conferred
with Ambassador Michael , S.
Comay, Israel's permament UN
representative.
They met at a luncheon given
by Deputy U.S. Permament
Representative F ra n c i s T.
Plimpton, with all the members
of the PCC — 'comprising dele-
gates from the United States,
France and Turkey—in atten-
dance. Officially the affair was
described as "an informal social
talk."
-Previously, Plimpton had
given a similar luncheon for
Dr. Johnson and members of
the PCC with the permament
representatives here for the
United Arab Republic, Jordan
and Lebanon, the three "hos
governments" which ha
diction over the
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