ISRAEL: Victor Without Spoils

Reporting to his fellow Israeli Parliamentarians last week, former Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett was full of the snubs he and two colleagues had received at a recent meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Bangkok. "An atmosphere of isolation such as I have never experienced at any international conference surrounded the Israeli delegation," said Sharett. Not only the Arabs and neutralist Asians but U.S. and European delegates gave him the cold shoulder, said Sharett. One Norwegian told him: "I'm sympathetic to your problems, but we Norwegians don't want atom bombs dropping on...

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