Israel has made no independent investigation of reports that United Nations peace emissary Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring belonged to a Nazi-affiliated party in Sweden in the 1930s, Foreign Minister Abba Eban told a Foreign Press Association luncheon today in response to questions. Eban said the government had done no more than note the press reports and the UN’s comment.
The reports, two weeks ago, said Ambassador Jarring was active in his 20s In the National Unity Party, which opposed Jewish immigration to Sweden and later became Nazi-linked. A UN spokesman explained that the party was respectable when Dr. Jarring Joined It, but he could not say whether the diplomat-to-be left it before or after it went far right. Regarding the deadlocked Jarring mission, Eban said he did not believe it could succeed as long as Egypt insisted on Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967, lines.
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