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Visit With Prime Minister Golda Meir
I
S IT SIGNIFICANT
of this
growing girls and young
time, that
women are
reflecting increasing qualities of leadership, while
young men are evidencing less and less ?
Every college president,
1
am sure, has become
painfully aware of this modern trend. The young people
boro since World War II are, indeed, a new breed.
Today three nations, one of them modern
J
udah, are ruled
by woman
Prime
Mínisters. They are: Mrs. Golda Meir, Prime
Minister of Israel; Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of
India's 550 teeming millions - second largest population in
the world - and Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of
Ceylon.
In the past few months I have had personal meetings with
two of these ruling women - Mrs. Meir and Mrs. Gandhi. Each
told me of the overwhelming problems that beset her.
It
seemed
to me that these problems are too stupendous to have to come
crashing down on the shoulders of a woman.
Never before has the whole world been embroiled in such
weighty, apparently unsolvable problems.
It
is indeed a frighten–
ing world in which we live today. The fact that these are women .
of exceptional abilities does not lessen the burden.
I have said before, and I say again, Jerusalem is destined
to be the focal point- the nerve center- of world news from
here on out. And on the human level, the destiny of the Israelí
people is presently in the hands of a woman.
What are the crushing problems that confront her ?
What kind of woman is Mrs. Meir?
Talking
Wirh Mrs. Meir
I am able to answer both questions much more intelligently
since spending forty-five minutes with the Prime Minister in
her executive office last February 7th. She told me her problems,
and how she views them. And after this personal contact, seeing
and hearing her at close range, I understand much better than
before what kind of woman she is.
Of course I was previously aware generally of Israel's
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ABOUT OUR COVER
Golda Meir was born in the Ukraine
but spent her youth in the United
States, graduating from the Teacher's
Training Collcge, MiJwaukee, Wis·
consin. She cmigrated co Israel in
1921. Mrs. Meir was among the
signers of lsrael's Oeclaraúon of
Independence. In September 1948,
she became Israel's first Ambassador
to the Soviet Unioo. From 1956 to
1966 she held the post of Fo.reign
Minister. Mrs. Meir became Israel's
third P.rimc Minister, in 1969, at
the dcath of Lcvi EshkoJ.