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Soviet Charge D’ Affaires Calls Upon Israeli Foreign Minister; Discusses Various Problem

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The Soviet Charge d’ affaires here today called con Israeli Foreign Moshe Sharett and discussed a number of questions with him. An official communique issued later by the Ministry said that the discussion concerned only “routine matters.”

Brig. Gen. William E. Riley and Henri Vigier, military and civilian sides, respectively, to U.N. acting mediator Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, dined here with Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett last night. Mr. Vigier, whose mission in Palestine has been completed now that all the Arab states have armistice agreements with Israel, bade the Israeli Foreign Minister Farewell.

Gershon Hirsch, who is currently in Lausanne s a member of the Israeli delegation to the Arab-Israeli peace talks, will shortly return to Tel Aviv to resume his duties as acting head of the Western European Division of the Foreign Ministry, it was learned today. He will be relieved at the U.N. peace parley by Tuvia Arazi, of the Middle East Division of the Ministry

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