A number of members of the DeGaulle Cabinet are preparing to react officially against a threat by the Arab League boycott office to blacklist companies with which France’s war hero, Gen, Pierre Koenig, is associated.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that the ministry plans to issue no communique on the issue. “We are treating this Arab threat with the disdain which it warrants. The affair is too sordid and ugly to call for our intervention,” he said.
The Arab boycott issue came to a head two days ago when it became known that the Arab League Boycott Office, at Damascus, had sent letters to five companies with which Gen; Koenig is associated, demanding that he be ousted. Gen. Koenig, who is a Roman Catholic of Alsatian origin, is president of the France-Israel Alliance Committee, a group which includes among its members 200 members of the French Parliament, 120 of whom are Gaullists.
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