The United States bears the greatest part of the responsibility for the United Nations Security Council’s resolution ordering Israel to cease drainage operations in the disputed area of the Huleh swamp, Premier David Ben Gurion declared here today at his first press conference since his return from a three-week tour of the United States. He blamed the resolution on America’s “unjustified” conciliatory policy toward the Arabs.
He reported that he had not discussed the Huleh project when he conferred with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington. He added, however, that the work would go on. The world already understands the impossibility of the return of the Arab refugees to Israel, he asserted, but “it still insists that we pay them compensation.”
Commenting on the Zionist movement, particularly in the U.S., Mr. Bon Gurion said the movement could grow and be strengthened provided its members devote themselves to “more constructive upbuilding of Israel,” rather than to “indulgence” imparty differences in Israel. The Premier was given the “freedom of the city” of Jerusalem yesterday at a ceremony at which Mayor S. Z. Shragai lauded Mr. Ben Gurion’s contributions to making Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
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