Gen. Charles de Gaulle was reported today to have initiated yesterday a series of diplomatic exchanges with Israel and several European and North African countries in advance of the projected Security Council summit conference.
The French Premier, who is pictured as pressing for a summit meeting in Europe with no more than half a dozen government heads participating, was reported to have sent diplomatic communications to Israel, Belgium, Holland, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain and Greece. He is also said to be sending his Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, to Bonn today for talks with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. M. Couve de Murville conferred in Rome this week-end with Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani in advance of the latter’s trip to Washington for talks with President Eisenhower.
(The West German Government has joined the growing chorus of Western states which endorse Israel’s right to attend the projected United Nations Security Council summit conference on the Middle East if the Arab states are represented. In a radio interview broadcast yesterday in the Saar, Felix von Eckardt, Bonn press chief and a close associate of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, said that participation of the Arab states would obligate the Western Powers to insist upon Israel’s presence at the summit parley.)
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