Public attacks on the Israeli Government, which in recent weeks have appeared in newspapers in Rumania, Hungary and other satellite countries, have now spread to Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia.
The newspaper Svoden Slovo, in a report on the recent elections in Israel charges the Israeli Government with a campaign of terrorization and intimidation and says Premier David Ben Gurion’s Mapai Party, acting on suggestions from the United States, hired “bandits who intimidated voters who wanted to vote for the Communist Party.”
The paper also accuses the Israeli authorities of applying violence and economic pressure against citizens who failed to support “the right-wing Socialist Government Party, Mapai.” The Czech Journal reports that the Israeli Communist Party had asked the Parliament to safeguard the freedom of elections in view of the “reign of terror,” but its demand had been rejected by the Government parties.
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