The State Department will tomorrow give an answer to the Israeli mission to the first protest ever made by Israel to this country. The Israeli note objected to the alleged interference of American military authorities in Germany with DP immigration to Israel.
The State Department today refused to name the Americans it says are involved in attempts to fly planes from Czechoslovakia to Israel, An official says that evidence obtained by the State Department indicated that American pilots had been working for a Czech firm ferrying aircraft and arms of various origins to Israel. Some of the pilots have returned to the United States and have given an account of their activities to the State Department, it was indicated. Whereupon the American charges d’affaires in Prague asked the Czechoslovakian Government on August 28 to “secure cessation of this traffic” and particularly to prohibit American citizens from participating in it.
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