Edward B. Lawson, United States Ambassador to Israel, is leaving tomorrow for home leave in the United States, during which he will confer in Washington with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and, possibly, with President Eisenhower.
Today, Mr. Lawson paid courtesy farewell visits to Premier David Ben Gurion and Mrs. Golda Meir, Foreign Minister, Mr. Lawson is expected to be absent from his post for two months, and is scheduled to return here in July.
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