Mikhail Bodrov, Soviet Ambassador to Israel, returned here today after two months of home leave in the USSR. It was learned in Embassy, circles that Mr. Bodrov will shortly confer with Foreign Minister Golda Meir and, possibly, with Premier David Ben Gurion. The Soviet diplomat has developed friendly contacts with the Premier.
Several days ago Israel lodged a strong protest against a “blood charge” of murder made in an official Russian journal, “International Life,” which falsely blames Israeli authorities for inciting the murder, last November, of Mrs. Joyce Doran, wife of the British air attache here. Mrs. Doran was killed by Syrian infiltrators. Her body, with three Arab-marked bullets, was found 60 meters inside Israel’s side of the Syrian frontier. The head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry’s East European division summoned the Soviet charge d’affaires and protested against the article.
“International Life” is sponsored by the Soviet Foreign Ministry. The article, which the Israel Foreign Ministry calls “unprecedented,” makes allegations which “even the Arabs have not dared voice.” The Foreign Ministry also pointed out to the Russian representative that the article fails to mention that a United Nations investigation had “clearly established” the fact that Syrian infiltrators had murdered Mrs. Doran.
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