For the first time since the Soviets launched their propaganda campaign of charges that Israel was planning to attack Jordan, Israel made a formal protest Tuesday at the diplomatic level. Mikhail Bodrov, Soviet Ambassador to Israel, was called in by Mrs. Golda Meir, Israeli Foreign Minister, who voiced Israel’s objections to the Soviet press and radio campaign.
Mrs. Meir was understood to have called to Bodrov’s attention both Israel’s official denials about any hostile intentions toward the shaky Hashemite kingdom as well as Prime Minister David Ben Gurion’s statement on the matter in Knesset last week.
The Soviet envoy, it was believed, repeated the standard Soviet attitudes toward Israel and promised to transmit Mrs. Meir’s complaints to Moscow.
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