Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia offered his good offices yesterday to relax the tension between Israel and the Arab states. The offer was made at a rally at Trebinje, on the Dalmatian coast, before 70,000 people who had gathered to celebrate the liberation of the town from the Nazis.
Marshal Tito declared that while Yugoslavia could not involve herself in the Israel-Arab differences, his government would gladly “do anything to bring relaxation in these problems.” The Yugoslav President noted that while Yugoslavia’s relations with the Arab states have not always been satisfactory in recent years, they are now good with both the Arab states and with Israel.
(Arieh Levavi has been appointed the new Israel Minister to Yugoslavia, it was announced today in Jerusalem by the Foreign Office. Mr. Levavi has been deputy director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, and is one of the country’s senior foreign service officers.)
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