Harriman Trip to Israel Seen as U.S. 'Calm-Down' Action Rabbi Rejects Invitation to Biased Club (Continued from Page 1) 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 SPECIAL ONLY ! Feb. a 1 rc 9 h thru March Exclusive styles with distinction, beauty and quality. Visit our display room and pick your ideal dinette set from such famous names as: DAYSTROM • HOLIBIRD DUTCHESS and Others DINETTE BY DAYSTROM WITH 4 SWIVEL CHAIRS Reg. Price $243.95 OUR PRICE 6995 1WE RE-UPHOLSTER CHAIRS Please bring 95 tip $3 ALANCO and up 13214 FENKELL 1 chair for estimate. CHROME CHAIR, Inc. 272-3578 Bet. Meyers & Schaefer Open: Tues., Wed., Thurs., Sat. to 6; Mon., Fri. to 8 p.m. 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, smialmmomm•■■ 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. 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