Harriman Trip to Israel Seen as U.S. 'Calm-Down' Action Rabbi Rejects Invitation to Biased Club
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ply function. Consequently, ac-
cording to West German argu-
ments, the United States now
has a responsibility to extricate
Bonn from the difficulties erupt-
ing from both Egypt and Israel.
It was against this background
that the Harriman trip was en-
visaged and authorized.
It was indicated that while the
current crisis between West Ger-
many and Israel will be a major
topic, the major subject of the
talks by Israelis with Harriman
will not be mediation.
The talks are expected to cover
a wide range of area problems and
include the threat by Arabs to
divert the Jordan River and Israeli
security questions. It was learned
here that the question of an Israel-
Arab arms imbalance resulting
from the increased arms flow to
Arab countries had been the sub-
ject of recent talks between Israel
Ambassador Avraham Harman and
Washington officials.
Harriman arrived in Jerusalem
simultaneously with the controver-
sial visit by East German Commun-
ist head of state Walter Ulbricht
to Cairo.
The visit was a factor in the
Bonn cancellation of arms deliv-
eries to Israel.
Originally it was understood
here the announcement of the
Harriman visit was to have been
made simultaneously in Washing-
ton and Jerusalem.
(Knappstein predicted a f ter
meeting with Secretary Dean
Rusk, that the United States may
be intervening with Israel in sup-
port of West Germany to calm
down "the very emotional reac-
tions" to Germany's difficulties
with Egypt. The Ambassador voic-
ed disappointment about Israel's
reaction, stating that West Ger-
many "had done a great deal for
them." He said Rusk has also
agreed to support the German
position in the Arab countries, in
connection with the current con-
troversy. The Ambassador and the
Secretary discussed further con-
tacts in that region.)
State Department spokesman
Robert McCloskey said there
were diplomatic discussions be-
tween the United States and
Bonn "prior to the sale agree-
ment, and we made it clear to
the Federal Republic (West
Germany) that we favored the
sale of tanks to Israel."
McCloskey indicated the United
States did not concur in Chancel-
lor Ludwig Erhard's termination
of his agreement with Israel. The
United States also, he said, op-
posed the Egyptian invitation to
East German leader Ulbricht. He
stated that the "United States
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would give sympathetic considera- but rather to create trouble in the
tion to a request from the Federal region.
Republic for use of our good
The United States Ambassa-
offices on their behalf in the Mid- dor to West Germany conferred
dle East."
with Foreign Minister Gerhard
Ludwig Erhard Blasts Egypt
and Communists; Defends
Action Taken on Israel
BONN (JTA) — Chancellor Lud-
wig Erhard strongly defended both
West Germany's arms aid to Israel
and the suspension by his govern-
ment of arms deliveries to Israel.
Addressing the Bundestag, he said
West Germany had to evolve pri-
marily a policy of German interest.
He told the Bundestag that he
was disappointed by Israel's re-
action to the arms delivery sus-
pension, especially after efforts
made by West Germany to help
Israel during the past 10 years.
"We have broken no agreement,"
the Chancellor affirmed. "We just
asked for Israel's agreement to
reach a common solution."
Flitting back at his German cri-
tics, the Chancellor said that all
opposition leaders had known
about the arms aid program. The
agreement was made in 1062 and
the heads of all Parliamentary
groups were informed, he asserted.
It was "not for love that the
Soviets had given the Arabs vast
military aid, the Chancellor said,
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BULLETIN
CAIRO—West Germany im-
mediately suspended all aid to
Egypt as soon as East German
Communist leader Walter -Ul-
bricht arrived for his visit
with President Nasser. Other
possible measures were being
studied by Bonn, but, for the
present, loans of up to $275,-
000,000 have been ruled out.
immumemorimmemnimmi
Syrians Renew Attacks
on Israeli Patrols Near
Area of '63 Murders
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Syrian gun
across the Jordan River,
near the river's inlet into Lake
Tiberias, opened fire at Israeli
border patrols twice in two days
last week.
Israel's frontier troops returned
the Syrian fire both times, and
once more, United Nations mili-
tary observers arranged a cease-
fire. Israel reported no casualties.
Both attacks were near the
settlement of Almagor, where
Syrian military infiltrators mur-
dered two Israeli farmers in
1963. At that time, Syria came
close to official censure for that
act by the United Nations Secur-
ity Council, where only a Soviet
veto kept such a condemnatory
resolution from becoming an of-
ficial UN action.
posts
In Washington, Phillips Talbot,
assistant secretary of state for
Near Eastern Affairs, told the
House Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs that border incidents be-
tween Israel and its neighbors
"have in recent months increased
in frequency, and tensions over
the Jordan River water issue, and
the build-up of arms have risen."
Testifying before the committee
on behalf of the foreign aid bill,
Talbot reported that "restiveness
produced by political, social and
economic change in all countries
of the area is compounded by
smouldering Arab-Israeli hostility."
Talbot told the Congressmen
that the Yemen issue remains un-
resolved and American relations
with Egypt were troubled by re-
cent developments, including Egyp-
tian support of the pro-Communist
Congolese rebels. He said these
problems, however, did not alter
United States foreign policy ob-
jectives "to help create the condi-
tions in which an enduring Middle
East peace can be obtained, and
to continue to help the countries
resist Soviet penetration efforts."
He stressed that American objec-
tives in the area remain unchanged,
although the present atmosphere
is "far from tranquil."
Schroeder and "expressed Amer-
ican willingness to assist Ger-
many" toward settling its cur-
rent Middle East crisis, State
Secretary Karl-Gunther von Hase,
spokesman for the government,
announced.
Von Hase refused to provide
further details about the confer-
ence between the Washington en-
voy and Dr. Schroeder.
(In Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry
officials failed to confirm reports
that the West German government
was sending an emissary to Israel
to seek a way out of the current
Bonn-Jerusalem crisis over the
suspension of arms shipments to
Israel from West Germany.)
Der Spiegel, of Hamburg, pub-
lished twin interviews with Israel's
Deputy Defense Minister Shimon
Peres and Egypt's President Gamal
Abdel Nasser. Peres said that, due
to the fact that "enormous" quan-
tities of Soviet arms have been
sent to Egypt, "the Americans,
French and British ought to help
redress the balance of arms in the
Middle East, and supply Israel
with weapons." "Germany," he
stated, "should have done so in
the first place." The question of
Israel's security, he declared, is
more important than the issue of
diplomatic relations between Ger-
many and Israel.
Asked by Der Spiegel about re-
ports emanating from Cairo to the
effect that Israel employs German
scientists, Peres denied that Ger-
man scientists in Israel work for
military purposes.
Nasser said that the "only" rea-
son he invited Communist East
Germany's Chief of State, Walter
Ulbricht, for a visit was "because
of the arms given to Israel by Bonn
as a present." He hinted there was
a possibility that his government
would recognize the East German
regime if Germany halted its eco-
nomic aid to Egypt after the Ul-
bricht visit.
Israel Cabinet Hears
Report on Germany's
Stoppage of Shipments
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Golda Meir reviewed for
the Cabinet the developments fol-
lowing the West German decision
to halt arms delivery to Israel and
the worldwide reaction to that
move. The report by Mrs. Meir and
Premier Levi Eshkol's review of
the security situation concluded
the Cabinet's political affairs dis-
cussion started three weeks ago.
Protests on Bonn's Halting
Arms to Israel in Many Lands
LONDON (JTA) — Fresh pro-
tests against West Germany's can-
cellation of arms shipments to
Israel were voiced in various
countries.
The Board of Deputies of Bri-
tish Jews adopted a resolution de-
ploring the decision of the West
German government "to surrender
to Nasser's terms and to terminate
the agreement for security aid to
Israel essential for the country's
defense.
In Rome, Judge Sergio Piperno,
president of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities, called on
the West German Ambassador to
transmit a statement of Italian
Jewry's "profound regret" over
West Germany's yielding to Presi-
dent Nasser of Egypt on the arms
to Israel suspension.
In Holland, a protest against the
arms suspension was sent to the
West German envoy at The Hague
by the Dutch Ashkenazi, Sephardi
and Liberal Jewish communities,
who said that the West German
"breach of promise" would lead
to a weakening of an Israel threat-
ened by the Arab countries.
In Montreal the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress, in a letter to West
German Ambassador Kurt Oppler
in Ottawa, expressed its "disturbed
feeling" over the cancellation by
the Bonn government.
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — A local is a private institution, not con-
Hillel Foundation director re- nected with the University of Pitts-
jected an invitation to attend a burgh.
dinner of the Associated Artists of
Pittsburgh, because the event will
be held in a club charged with
practicing racial and religious bias.
The artists group has Negro and
Jewish members.
Rabbi Richard L. Rubenstein
took his stand in a letter to Prof.
Jerry Caplan, president of the
artists group and director of the
Chatham College art department.
He asserted that "it is a matter
of public record that the Univer-
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