Preparations Completed for Ben-gurion’s Arrival in U.S.

Preparations were completed today in the United States for the arrival on Tuesday of Mr. and Mrs. Ben-Gurion for a week’s stay, during which Mr. Ben-Gurion will be the recipient of an honorary degree from Brandeis University at Waltham, Mass. The Prime Minister is scheduled to fly from Israel directly to Boston. However, should weather conditions prevent his landing in Boston, he may land in New York and proceed to Boston immediately.

The Prime Minister will issue a brief non-political statement upon his landing and will not give any interviews at the airfield. In Boston he will rest for the day and will proceed Wednesday morning to Waltham for breakfast with the faculty of Brandeis University. Later he will attend the special convocation which will take place shortly before noon and at which he will deliver a 45-minute lecture on the contributions made by Greece, India and Israel to science and ethics. He will leave Boston on the same day.

Details of Mr. Ben-Gurion’s schedule for the entire time of his visit will be announced from day to day. It is expected that during his stay in Washington he will see President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter. However, the State Department said that the exact dates had not yet been fixed.

United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced yesterday that he will tender a luncheon to Mr. and Mrs. Ben-Gurion at his apartment in New York on Monday, March 14, to be followed later in the day by a visit of the Prime Minister to the United Nations headquarters and by an official reception given that evening by Mr. Hammarskjold at the United Nations.

(In London, the Foreign Office announced that Prime Minister Ben-Gurion will arrive there from the United States on March 17 to meet with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The meeting will take place on the day of Mr. Ben-Gurion’s arrival, the Foreign Office said.)