ABSTRACT
Arriving in Washington did not mean that Reuven Shiloah could now relax. For him it was like moving from one battlefield to another, from one front line to the next. He did so of his own choice. From the mid¬ 1940s he had always regarded the United States as the front line of Israel’s diplomacy, and when he resigned from intelligence work, he asked to be sent to Washington. He was convinced that he would be able to establish good working relations with Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban - as indeed was the case, after a period of adjustment that was far from easy for both men.
