State Department sources were pleased to see the initial poor showing of the pro-Soviet Mapam Party and of the Communist Party in the general elections in Israel.
The results are considered an effective answer to Arab propaganda circulated in Washington that East European Jews arriving in Israel were bringing Communism with them.
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