Eshkol Wins Mapai Skirmish
on Alignment With Aehdut Avodah;
Ben-Gurion Vote Sole Opposition

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol emerged victorious Tues-
day morning from a turbulent
eight-hour meeting of the Mapai
Secretariat on the issue of align-
ment with Achdut Avodah.
Eighteen members of the sec-
retariat voted for the Prime Min-
ister's proposal, which stated that
negotiations to the present time
formed a basis for alignment be-
tween the two labor parties. The
lone vote against the proposal was
made in a letter by former Premier
David Ben-Gurion.
The complex understanding
called for an independent Achdut-
Histadrut faction within a joint

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Mapai ..Achdut electoral block. Ben-
Gurion bitterly opposed what he
called an arrangement giving the
Achdut Party the status of a
minority dictating to a majority
in Israel's federation of labor. The
agreement also provided for Mapai
readiness to postpone electoral re-
forms to which Mapai had com-
mitted itself under Ben-Gurion's
leadership! as premier.
Two secretariat members, Jus-
tice Minister Dov Joseph, and
Knesset member Yona Kesse, the
latter a follower of former His-
tadrut Secretary. G e n . Pinhas
Agriculture
abstained.
Lavon,
Minister Moshe Dayan report-
edly took no part in the voting
though he attended the meeting,
which lasted from 6:30 Monday
evening to 2:30 Tuesday morn-
ing.
Joseph Almogi. development and
housing minister. threatened ini-
tially to vote against the proposal.
He voted for it after he was prom-
ised that the question of assuring
Mapai's majority in the Histadrut
was still to be t a k en up with
Achdut negotiators.
The vote ended one stage of the
Mapai internal conflict. The secre-
tariat resolution will
now be
brought before the Mapai Central
Committee with a recommendation
that it be approved. It was agreed
at the same time that the question
of electoral reform, which Ben-
Gurion had insisted was insepar-
able from any alignment pact, will
be discussed at the next Mapai
convention.
Supporters of the Eshkol pro-
posal included Finance Minister
Pinhas Sapir, Foreign Minister
Golda Meir, Knesset member Akiva
Govrin, Deputy Premier Abba
Eban and Tel Aviv Mayor Morde-
chai Namir. Jewish Agency Execu-
tive Chairman Moshe Sharett and

Mrs. Meir sent their supporting
votes in writing.
In ending the debate, Premier
Eshkol said he hoped that La-
von's followers would not break
with _the party. If they did, he
added, and joined Achdut Avo-
dah, there would be no align-
ment. Lavon, who was forced out
as Israel defense minister and
later as Histadrut secretary gen-
eral as an aftermath of a
disastrous Israeli security mis-
haps in 1954, did not react to
Eshkol's warning.
Achdut leader and Labor Min-
ister Yigal Allon welcomed the
vote. He said it would result in
a "great change" in Israel's so-
ciety. The Liberal Party's Izhar
Harari, however, saw a danger in
the alignment to private initiative
in Israel. He said the alignment
efforts were "signs of weakness"
in the two labor parties. Binyami

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Party also described the prospec-
tive alignment as "destructive" to
Israel's economic affairs.
During an earlier debate in
Jerusalem, Premier Eshkol had
warned Ben-Gurion against re-
newal of "affairs" which he said Lki
might endanger the state. This was
a reference to Ben-Gurion's seek-

ing to reopen the smoldering

"Lavon Affair" by presenting a
"white book" to Justice Minister
Joseph and asking for a new in-
vestigation of the celebrated case
in which Lavon was repeatedly
exonerated by a variety of commit-
tees of responsibility for the 1954
mishap.
The case was reportedly under
review again this time by Minister
Joseph. A report is expected within
a month.
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the Rome Ghetto where a marble
memorial stone was unveiled at
the spot where, on Oct. 16, 1943,
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those tragic events should serve
as a warning for youth who too

ence that 2,000 Jewish resis-
tance fighters--a considerable
percentage of the tiny commu-
nity of 30,000 souls—had fought
for the liberation of Italy from
Nazi tyranny.

Mayor Petrucci of Rome said
at the ceremonies that the depor-
tation of Italian Jews in October,
1943, was one of the events that
awakened Italians to reality and
made it clear to them that the
enemy had to be fought.
Home Minister Taviani, repre-
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