Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who returned home last night from an absence of almost two weeks, during which he conferred with Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other leaders of the London Government, told the Israeli Cabinet here today that his visit to Britain “achieved its purpose, strengthened the ties of friendship and deepened understanding between the two countries.”
Mr. Eshkol told newsmen at the airport, when he arrived after a short vacation in France, that his talks with the British leaders proved the “identity of views between the two governments on various matters.” The London meetings, he declared, were “good.” The talks, he said, covered worldwide problems as well as regional, Israeli and British problems. Actually, he said, his own predictions regarding his trip to Britain, voiced when he left for London, “came true.”
The Premier, however, refused to comment on the reports from London which quoted Mr. Wilson as saying that Britain opposes Israel’s use of force in connection with the Arab plans to divert the headwaters of the Jordan River.
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