Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israeli Army Chief of Staff, will leave at the end of August for a month-long visit to South Africa, it was announced here today. Herut party circles here were claiming that the trip was connected with the attempt of the South African Zionist Federation to hamper a separate Revisionist fund-raising campaign there.
A military spokesman, announcing the trip, said Gen. and Mrs. Dayan had been invited by the South African Zionist Federation which announced on Tuesday the expulsion of the Revisionist party for proceeding with plans for the independent fund-raising.
Gen. Dayan will visit various communities in South Africa and lecture in the South African Military Academy. On his return, the Israeli Chief of Staff will visit Ghana, the new South African nation with which Israel is busily building trade and cultural relations, and meet with Premier Nkrumah.
Sources in the Herut party, which is sending Menachem Beigin and Chaim Landau to Johannesburg Aug. 11 to launch the Revisionist campaign, expressed the belief that the Dayan visit was arranged in response to requests from the Zionist Federation, which asked for a leading Israeli personality to offset Mr. Beigin’s visit.
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