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United States to Arrange Talks On Loan to Polish Government; Israel Continues to Resist U.N.

By The ASSOCIATED Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7--The United States announced today it will open negotiations with Communist Poland soon on that country's proposal to borrow American dollars and buy American goods. The purpose is to shore up Poland's newly-won independence of Russia.

Lincoln White, State Department press officer, said the Polish government has been invited to hold the economic talk in Washington and has accepted. He thought the negotiations would start soon. Other sources said the United States was ready to begin them early next week.

The Warsaw government wishes to get trade credits here totaling about 100 million dollars at least. It wants these to finance the purchase of urgently needed cotton, modern farm machinery, new mining equipment, fats and oils, chemical fertilizer and grains for cattle food.

Israel Opposition to U.N. Hardens

JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Feb. 7--Reports indicate that Israel is intensifying plans to hold on in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba despite a personal message from President Eisenhower.

All surface indications are that the nation's leaders have not weakened in the slightest, despite pressure from the President and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Israel still demands guarantees against renewal of Egyptian aggression before withdrawing from those portions of Egypt her army still holds.

Arabian Announces Accord With Dulles

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7--The deputy foreign minister of Saudi Arabia said tonight after a long conference with Secretary of State Dulles that "we have agreed on everything we have discussed." His words indicated full understanding has been reached on such issues as continued American use of the Dhahran air base and a military aid program for Saudi Arabia.

A.P. News in Brief

The Soviet Union yesterday expelled two more U.S. military attaches, accusing them of taking pictures of "a building of defense significance." The action followed a Leningrad incident in which both men were attacked, the U.S. Embassy said. The Soviet move came close on the heels of yesterday's elaborately staged and televised news conference at the Soviet Foreign Ministry at which press chief L.F. Ilyichep charged the United States with waging a secret war on Russia through a massive espionage campaign.

Southern witnesses denounced President Eisenhower's civil rights program yesterday as containing the seed of a "Soviet type gestapo." Critics from Georgia and Alabama opened such a broadside before a House Judiciary subcommittee that Northern members protested against what they called "inflammatory" statements.

The Soviet government cleared up a major mystery yesterday by acknowledging that missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died at Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow ten years ago. The Russian admission--with a belated expression of regret--came after 12 years of straight-faced Soviet denials of any knowledge of Wallenberg's fate. It cast blame for the cover-up on a former Stalin police official, now dead.

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