Meir-Pope Conference Creates Israel Dispute

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. . it has an especially
play down the meeting. Rab- strong echo because it was
bi Toaff said he was coo- given immediately after the
winced that Allessandrini had visit, before the smoke of the
been instructed by superiors Italian police motorcyclists
to make his negative com- (Mrs. Meir's escort) faded
ments because "the Vatican away."
wanted to prove its equidis-
Shamir recalled the meet-
tance from Israel and the ing between Theodor Herzl
Arabs."
and Pope Pius X in January
Moshe Shamir, writing in 1904. The Pope said the
Jews
did not recognize our
Maariv, said the most import-
ant fact of the meeting was Lord, we cannot recognize
that it was not important. the Jews." This time, said
The official spokesman of the writer, "we should say,
the Holy See rushed to in- the Catholics did not recog-
form the world immediately nize our state, we cannot
after the meeting that noth- recognize the Catholics."
Yeshayahu Ben Porat,
ing has been changed in the
Vatican's atitude toward Is- writing in Yediot Ahronot,
rael," Shamir wrote. That criticized the Israeli press
oral statement was "a well for creating "an historic at-
aimed slap in the fa"e in- mosphere" around the meet-
tended to echo far and wide ing which turned out not to
be historic and was followed
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS by a demonstration of "im-
politeness that borders on a
6—Friday, Jan. 19, 1973
slap in the face." Ben Porat
also
questioned the wisdom
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of Premier Meir's trip to
MANAGEMENT
Paris to attend the meeting
of the Socialist International
after President Georges
Pompidou of France told her
not to come. Commenting on
her trip to Geneva Tuesday.

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Golds Meir of Israel and
President Felix Houphouet-
Boigny of the Ivory Coast
met Tuesday for 31/2 hours
at the president's villa
on the outskirts of Geneva.
The meeting, billed officially
as "a general review of re-
lations between the two
countries and the Middle
East situation," was shroud-
ed in secrecy and little in-
formation was disclosed after
it ended.
A joint communique issued
here Tuesday evening stated
that the Ivory Coast presi-
dent used the opportunity of
his and Mrs. Meir's stay in
Europe i in order to invite her
to lunch at his villa. The
communique stated that the
two leaders expressed their
"keen desire for peace in the
Middle East."

Mrs. Meir was scheduled
to return to Israel Tuesday
evening, ending a five-day
European visit during which
she attended the Socialist In-
ternational meeting in Paris
Saturday and Sunday and
met Pope Paul VI at the
Vatican in Rome Monday.
She held no other meetings
during her 24-hour stay in
Geneva.

here declared that they were
"highly satisfied" with the
results of the meeting
but gave no details. Ivory
Coast is considered to have
excellent relations with Is-
rael and its president is a
personal friend of Premier
Meir. Sources in Jerusalem
indicated that Mrs. Meir
wanted to consult with Presi-
dent Houphouet-Boigny in
light of' Israel's serious dip-
lomatic setbacks on the
African continent during the
past year.

Mrs. Meir was accom-
panied by Simha Dinitz, di-
rector general of the prime
minister's office in Jeru-
salem and the new Israel
ambassador of the U. S., and
Mrs. Loukadar, her secre-
tary.

Before' going to Geneva,
Mrs. Meir held a press con-
ference in the Israeli em-
bassy in Rome following her
meeting with Pope Paul.

At the press conference
Mrs. Meir indicated that she
considered her meeting with
Pope Paul to have been an
historic event. She observed
that "anybody with historic
perspective cannot possibly
to meet President Felix Hou-
refuse to see there is historic
phouet-Boigny of Ivory Coos:.
The
announcement
the journalist observed:
in value in it. I was very grati-
"Blessed be he who believes Jerusalem that Premier fied when the Pope express-
that this meeting will h2ln Meir was going to Geneva ed his appreciation of the
Israel's position in Africa." to meet President Ilouphouet- way Israel was taking care
It was learned Wednesday Boigny came as a surprise of the holy places."
that only a handful of p:-opt- as she was expected to return
Asked if she considered a
were aware of
Prenie.. directly to Israel from Rome. verbal statement by a Vati-
Meir's intentions tq visi. thi_ Mrs. Meir's meeting with the can spokesman playing down
Pope before it was an- African leader was In fact the importance of her papal
nounced last Sunday. These unknown in advance to the audience to be a "diplomatic
included Foreign Minister Ivory Coast ambassador in slap in the face," Mrs. Meir
Abbe Eban and his senior Switzerland. Even as Mrs. replied: "I didn't break into
adviser, Arthur Lourie, Dep- Meir was landing in Geneva the Vatican. I came because
the ambassador was stating the meeting had been ar-
uty Premier Yigal
Justice
Minister
Yaacov publicly in Berne that no ranged. I have no excuses to
dhimshon Shapiro and one or such meeting was planned. offer for my coming."
two other ministers. Mrs. Israe circles said the mis-
Mrs. Meir said she didn't
Meir did not advise her fall unde a ding was due to the
want to enter into polemics
cabinet of her plans because
meeting having been ar- "with those who issued that
she feared a leak to the
press. Religious Affairs Min- ranged in Abidjan, the Ivory statement" and would stand
ister Zorach Warhaftig,
whose duties would senn to
make him privy to such in-
formation, was kept in the
dark.
In the Knesset, VI'ednes-
day, the Gahal and Free
Center factions called for an
urgent debate on Allessan-
drinis' statement which MK
Shmuel Tamir of the Free
Center called "an insult to
Israel and the Jewish
people."
Mrs. Meir Consults
With Ivory Coast Chief
By MELVILLE MARK
JTA Geneva Correspondent
GENEVA (JTA)—Premier

by the official Vatican com-
munique issued after her
audience.

Golda Didn't Ask
Ivory Coast President
to Rescue Israel
By ROBERT SLATER
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Sources in Jerusalem sug-
gested Wednesday that
Prime Minister Golda Meir
did not ask Ivory Coast
President Felix Houphouet-
Boigny
to "pull Israel's
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