CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 23, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. ISRAELI LEADERS IN PARIS
. KISHI TO BECOME NEW JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER
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2. ISRAELI LEADERS IN PARIS
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The American ambassador in Paris
reports that Mehahem Begin, ex-Stern
gang leader, member of the Knesset,
and head of the Herut Party, is now in
Paris where he is meeting with various
political figures, including DeGaulle.
The American air attache in Israel
reports that Col. Weizmafnn,'. the nephew
of 'Israel's first president and a top Israeli air force com-
mander, will depart for Paris on 24 February for a three-
week stay.
Comment These visits are indicative of the exten--
sive efforts being made to broaden the
basis of French-Israeli political and military collaboration.
Both Begin and Weizmann, visited. France last summer,. and
Begin has been given credit for helping promote French sup-
port for the Israeli invasion.of Sinai. The present contacts
are part of the larger effort and do not necessarily suggest
that a new military venture is being planned.
Premier Mollet said on 22 February that
France will continue to give Israel "all the aid we cano'
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3. KISHI TO BECOME NEW JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER
ment, which is expected to win easy Diet approval, almost cer-
tainly will continue its co-operation with the United States, but
Kishi, like his predecessor, believes strongly in increasing the
independent position of Japan.
Japan's Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi
was to submit his resignation on 23 Feb-
ruary. He will be replaced by his foreign
minister, Nobusuke Kishi. The new govern-
Ishibashi's resignation followed an announce-
ment on 22 February that illness would prevent his resumption
of duties for two months. Government and Liberal-Democratic
Party leaders, under heavy criticism from the Socialists and
from dissidents within conservative ranks because of the execu-
tive and legislative standstill since Ishibashi's illness, decided
to form a new cabinet. All ministers reportedly will retain
their posts in the new government.
Kishi, a bureaucrat turned politician, is 61
and is comparatively young for a Japanese prime minister. He
was the principal planner in Japan's pre-war economic develop-
ment of Manchuria, a member of the wartime Tojo cabinet, and
in recent years one of the conservatives' principal political or-
ganizers. He enjoys wide support within the Liberal Democratic
Party,
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