Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion seems to have patched up his political differences with Professor Martin Buber. For the first time since Professor Buber had criticized Mr. Ben-Gurion publicly over the Pinhas Lavon affair–the issue which caused the last Government to quit and brought about new elections–Mr. Ben-Gurion attended a meeting of the Classics Translation Projects Committee, held in Professor Buber’s home.
The Premier had resigned from that committee, which is headed by Professor Buber, after the famous philosopher had made some remarks about the Premier which Mr. Ben-Gurion considered “insulting.” At the meeting, the committee decided to proceed with further translation into Hebrew of significant classics, including works by Alfred North Whitehead and Henry David Thoreau.
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