Israel Informs U.N. of Continued Incitement of Arab Refugees by Jordanian Government

With the flow of Arab refugees from the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, to the Israeli-held West Bank, scheduled to start tomorrow, Israel has told Secretary-General U Thant here that the Jordanian Government’s campaign of “vituperation and direct incitements” were creating a “serious obstacle” to the entire plan for readmitting the Arabs from the Jordanian side.

Jordan’s “continued hostility, verbal assaults and vile defamation.” Mr. Thant was told in a note from Israel’s permanent representative. Ambassador Gideon Rafael, are not fit for circulation by the Secretariat as official U.N. documents. Jordan’s charges of Israeli actions against Jordanian villages and civilians, he said, are “without foundation, totally groundless.”

Meanwhile, the representatives of the 13 Arab states here formed an “action committee” today to press for the election of a Jordanian as a vice-president of the next General Assembly, scheduled to convene next month. Two other Arabs are candidates for the chairmanships of two of the Assembly’s standing committees.

It was announced today that Ernesto A. Thalmann, the Swiss diplomat named by Mr. Thant as his personal representative to study the situation of Jerusalem, would leave for Jerusalem Monday, but will not have a staff of his own. He will use parts of the staff of Lt. Gen. Odd Bull. supervisor of the cease fire arrangements. A U.N. spokesman denied today, on behalf of Mr. Thant, that the Secretary-General is engaged in any talks for the reopening of the Suez Canal which Egypt blocked last June when the six-day war flared.