Despite the fact that the French Government has not yet officially recognized the Provisional Government of Israel, the French Ministry of the Interior is honoring visas for Israel issued by Abraham Goldberg, Israeli diplomatic representative here. The Ministry considers the Israeli documents valid for purposes of issuing French exit or transit visas.
Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister, asked the National Assembly this afternoon to let the government decide when to recognize the state of Israel, which Bidault said, “is not yet a state de jure and is scarcely a state de facto.”
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