Mrs. Myerson Denies Report That She Was Ill-treated in Moscow, Hits Correspondents

Mrs. Golda Myerson, retiring Israeli Minister to the Soviet Union and Israeli Minister of Labor, in a statement to the press on a News-week article published last week asserting that she was “indignant over treatment she received during her brief stay in Moscow,” declared today that “I am indeed indignant, not over anything I have met in the U.S.S.R. but with reports of correspondents who, either through sheer ignorance or willful malice, report such things which are as absurd as they are unfounded.”

Mrs. Myerson’s statement added that “ever since the Israeli legation came to Moscow, we met nothing but helpfulness and courtesy from everybody whom it was our privilege to meet. I feel almost inclined to believe that it is the cordial relations between the two countries, as expressed through relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Israeli legation, that leads some who are dissatisfied with this, to publish such folly, “she said.