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Just after his talks in New York with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion last month (and just before his trip to Vienna), President Kennedy tried to still Arab fears that any Democratic Administration, because of the heavy vote it draws from U.S. Jews, is automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing...
...pals prowled the global beat, collecting heads of state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser and Ben-Gurion at the same time"). Khrushchev has been such a regular subject for interviews that the Soviet Premier now regards Hearst as "my capitalist-monopolist friend." Hearst is moved to reciprocate. "May the Good Lord and my esteemed...
Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, likes to thump his innumerable enemies one after the other, like a man playing a xylophone. Last week it was again the turn of the U.S. Zionists, whom Ben-Gurion ridicules as reluctant to leave the comforts of home and share the hardships of life in Israel...
...Gurion told the Knesset, his country's Parliament, that U.S. Zionists think of Israel as a place not for themselves but for "homeless" Jews. "They are not truly Zionists if they do not settle in Israel." he cried. In fact, Ben-Gurion went on, "I know of only one Zionist in America whom I would call a Zionist. He does not think of himself as an American; he thinks of himself only...
Having said his say, Ben-Gurion planned this week to visit the U.S., where he can expect to find a smaller hello than usual from U.S. Zionists...