I ■, I ■, I 'l I TO-The Canadian Jewish Ne^,Frr(fay/Feb. .10, 1961 After The Lavon Ouster CLASSIFIED SECTION B£N mm JO REMN W PREMIER OFm NEW TURN j Jerusalem, (CJN) — A vote of; Mapai has cleared the way fori Ben di.rion's return to power, but the Lavon affair erupted in violence as the ruling Mapai party's Central Conunittee voted to remove Pinhas La von from his post as secretary general of Israel's general labor federation, i -The police said Saturday night ] that nine persons had been ar-1 rested and later released on: bail. WEINSTEIN HONOURED Although one person appeared to hiave been, injured, the, police reported no one had been hurt. VOTE CLOSE "The Central Committee meeting resolved, 159 to 96, that Mr. Lavon should no longer represent the party in Histadrut, th« powerful labor federation, because of the things he had said of the army and of some Mapal" personages in clearing hlnxself of blame for a disastrous security adventure in 1954, when he was I>efense Minister. (The imdisclosed" adventure, which led to Mr. Lavon's resignation from the defense post in February, 1955, Is believed to have been an espionage operations In Cairo that the Egyptians exposed.) Because . David Ben-Gurion had given the party an ultimatum to get Mr. Lavon' out of the Histadrut post, the vote was considered surprisingly close. ~- ~ MORAL DEFEAT Although many ^servers considered the vote a resounding moral defeat for Mr. Ben-Gurion, party leaders said tonight that another meeting would probably be" calletS^thln a few days to reassure him that the Lavon affair was a matter apart from his leadership of the party and to call on him to resume his place at the head of the party and the Groverrmient. Mr^ Ben-Gurion resigned last Tuesday as Premier because of his opposition to a Cabinet ruling that exonerated Mr. Lavon in the 1954 adventure. Mr. Ben-Curion succeeded Mr. Lavon as Defense Minister in 1955 before' becoming Premier later that-year.. - FIVE MEMBERS ABSTAIN Five persons were said to have - abstained at the Mapai meeting, which was held in the Othel Theatre and was closed to the public. Forty-one party members who were eligible to participate did not attend. Nathan Rotenstreich, dean of the faculty of humanities at Hebrew University and the leading ideologist of the Mapai party, to which both Mr. Ben-Gurion Mr. Lavon belong, supported Lavon. ~" When Mr. Sharett left the theatre,:^ the crowd that began to gather again shouted: ,, "We iwant you as Premierf*-^ "You aren't the ones to decide," Mr. Sharett TCpUedT" The crowd hooted Shimon Peres, Deputy Minister of De^ fense under Mn Ben-Gurion, and Moshe Dayan, Minister of Agriculture. Both are close to M;. Ben-Gurlbn and both came under attack by Mr. Lavon during the investigations, of the affair. In a brief statement, Mr. Lar' von said he regarded the Central Committee vote as a "moral victory" when one took into account "the pressure, of the PremTer's res-ignation and the sharp turn b the Finance Minister." He said he would call a meeting of the Histadrut executive. MOROCCO ARAB LEADER PROTESTS PERSECUTION Recently Mr. Samuel Weinstein, founder and president of the ! ALGIERS (W.J.A.)) — In an ; interview with the Algerian Jew-jish monthly 'Information Juive' i Morocco's former Prime Minister j Abdallah Ibrahim, now the leader ! of the major opposition party, the ; National Union of Popular Forces, suggested that a solution to the suspension of mail commimication between Morocco and Israel might be possible through the good offices of the International Red Cross and the Moroccan Red Crescent. He Power Stores Umited,^-as select-;,,id that the suspension 'had ed by the Food Industry .'Vsso- i ^„ „„j„..*„, u -„ioH„ undertaken by Morocco as cjation of Canada as their Man „ ____. , -i, . „ , , . , „ _, a member of the Arab Postal of the Year. He was presented i „ . w , with thP A«rv- (Israel) . . "Al Istiqlal" advised the Government to end the activities "of ce-tain organizations which re- ceive aid and orientation Israel." from "JEWS TORTURED", AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE CHARGES submitted last week-end to the Executive Board of the American Jewish Committee. The Board also heard a report on Arab anti-Jewish activities, which declared that the United , Arab Republic and the Arab New York, (JCNS) A campaign j League were intensifying anti-of brutality on the part of Mo- i Jewish propaganda on an Inter-roccan police against Jews, rang-, national scale, "in a campaign Ing "from wholesale arrests to torture", was touched off by EgjTDtian propagandists during President Nasser's recent visit to Casablanca, and has continued until. now, according to a report unmatched since Nazi times". "A CRIME" AGAINST ARABS - CAIRO RADIO LONDON (JCNS) — "A crime against the Arabs," was the official Egyptian description of the shipment announced of centurion British tanks to Israel. Cairo Radio stated in its broadcast early today: "Britain was mainly responsiUle for the creation of Israel and now she commits another crime against the Arabs so soon after relations between the United Arab Republic and herself have been raised to ambassadorial level." 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PHONE:- RU. 1-3626. They also promised they would | as M. Blumel suggested it was. ARCHBISHOP TO PI{ESiDE COUNCIL OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS LONDON (JCNS) — The Arch-bi-shop of York, Dr. Ramsay, who ed abroad, that the Soviet Gov- already shown an active in. ernment was no more taking the trouble to deny them." She questioned the French jZUCHTER'S ISTARLIGHT ROOM CATERERS ENJOY YOUR NEXT PARTY. LET ZUGHTERS CATER IT 315 ADELAIDE ST. W. ! EM. 8-6239 — EM. 8-6647 j UNITED NATIONS (Continued from page 1) they declare that the person responsible for the error was punished after ho had been forced to publish an apology. The writers of the letter maintain that although there is an antl-religlous campaign, believers, whether Jews or Moslems, have "all possibilities to carry on their religion in the traditional way". It appears that the "New York Tribune" has not so far published the letter but it was given much prominence in the Communist Jewish Press In France. The names of the signatories, as well as their professions, are given In full as follows: Gilboa Davidov,, hero of Socialism and Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Dagestan; Ghizgll Abshulmov, writer and member of the all-Soviet Union of Writers; Charikuh Gadmilov, machinist and leader of the Communist Workers' Brigade; Hlrshon Ba-bavev, doctor of the Buinaksk Hospital (Buinaksk was the place where the "blood libel accusation" was revived in 'the local newspaper); Mishi (Moshe) Bak-chiey,. writer and member of the Ail-Soviet Union of Writers; and Shabati Abrambv, Chairman of the local farm collective. nours Willi iwrs. rum»t»« __ ... , . . . .„ _j__ subject of Yiddish culture in the Z«oni«t 'f^^er «bout his c6n-USSR, he was not "particularly eepcion of cultural freedom, ev optimistic" on the result of this "first contact." The only "positive" potat is plained that attitude adopted towards Soviet J<>wr>- could not be separated from the general that he wiU be writing, whenever ] PoUby apphcd to other nac.on^-he deems it necessary, to Mrs. j ties and minoriti« gene^l Furtseva. who assured him that ; She, however. notes whUe she vould «ply to him. | promised to "see what she can When he met the Soviet Mhils^ do.' terest in the work of the Council of Christians and Jews, is to assume its joint Presidency — a position now held by the present Archbishop, of Canterbury — when he succeeds Dr. Fisher later this year. This was announced at the an- Memortal Hall, Church House, London. Paying tribute to Dr. Pisher for his 17 years of leadership, Mr. Edmund de Rothschild, joint Treasurer of the Ckiuncil, thanked him on behalf of Anglo-Jewry for his work via the Council in the cause of racial and religious tolerance. 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