The Franco-Israel Chamber of Commerce declared today that the decision of the partly Government-owned Renault Company to cancel operations in Israel was “incompatible with French conceptions of law and equality within the framework of international legislation.”
The statement, which was widely publicized in the French press, urged the auto company to reconsider its decision to halt assemblies of its small car at the Kaiser-Frazer plant in Haifa “in a spirit of conciliation.” The statement also urged the French firm to supply Israel with the previously-scheduled 1,600 cars so that the Haifa enterprise could switch over gradually to other production without causing a shock to Israel’s economy.
The Renault decision continued to preoccupy the French press. Many dailies and weeklies, including the influential L’Expresse, contained long articles on the controversy. The issue also was raised in Parliament when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville replied to questions from deputies.
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