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...almost every Sunday morning since last May, a sleek black limousine pulled away from the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv last week, threaded its way through the stony Judean hills to Jerusalem, and rolled to a stop before a wide white building with green onion domes. Out of the car and into the incense-filled Russian Orthodox Church filed Pavel Ivanovich Ershov, Soviet minister to Israel, and some of his top staff aides. The churchgoing Communists were adding some new wrinkles to an old plot they had inherited from the czars...
Only three days before the Mossadegh government fell, Richardson had been in Teheran, talking with important political figures. All assured him things were now quiet in Iran, says Richardson, "including Mossadegh himself, who sat up in bed looking chipper and confident." Richardson flew to Jerusalem to check a report (which turned out to be unfounded) that a U.N. truce observer had resigned. He then returned to his Beirut base and found he had to write a background report on Mossadegh's successor, Qavam-only to get the report a few hours later that Qavam was out and Mossadegh back...
...Jerusalem last week, Pinhas Koplovitch, a small, balding Polish Jew, took a slim, dark-blue booklet from the hands of an Israeli government official and murmured a traditional thanksgiving: "Praised be Thou, O Lord, who hast let me live to see this day." Koplovitch had in his hands the first Israeli passport...
Three months ago, Israel announced that its Foreign Ministry would move to Jerusalem "before winter." The U.S. State Department, which always treats Israel with the greatest tenderness, especially in election years, demurred this time-in an aide-mémoire which both sides agreed to keep from the press. An Israel spokesman brazenly announced that the U.S. had in effect approved Jerusalem's status as capital of Israel...
This was too much, even for the State Department, and even in an election year. It released the text of the aide-mémoire: "The Government of the United States continues to adhere to the policy that there should be a special international regime for Jerusalem . . . Consequently, the U.S. Government . . . has no present intentions of transferring the Ambassador and his staff to Jerusalem." Britain, France, Italy, Turkey and Australia announced that they felt the same way. Their objections disturbed but did not stop the Israelis. Last week, the Holy City resounded to the hammering of workmen putting up prefab...