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countries is assured. They included:
regular overland transport by road
and rail; free transit through air-
ports; communications by radio,
telephone and posts; free access to
Israel's ports; facilitating oil trade;
encouragement of tourism and free
access to the Holy sites; joint re-
search of production and market-
ing of raw materials as well as
deasalination of water and ex-
ploiting of new sources of energy.
Eshkol -pointed out that a cli-
mate of negotiation would make
possible joint action to restrain
the armaments race, and to bring
about disarmament in the region.
The great resources which would
be liberated would make it much
easier to resettle the Arab refu-
gees and absorb them in their
natural, national environment, he
pointed out. For such action, Is-
rael would be prepared to aid
financially to the best of her
ability, with the assistance of
the Great Powers, he said.
The Prime Minister declared
that such a peace program is no
figment of the imagination and
that "the day will come when the
Arab states will recognize that the
true division is not between Israel
and the Arabs, but between peace
lovers and aggressors, and will
draw the logical political conclu-
sions." He emphasized that on the
same basis of a "natural national
environment" Israel has absorbed
Jewish refugees from Arab lands
numbering no less than the Arab
refugees who left Israel.
(In Washington, the first reac-
tions to the proposal for direct
Israeli-Arab peace talks, made by
Eshkol, were favorable. However,
it was pointed out that formal com-
ment on this proposal would have
to await receipt there of the full
text of Eshkol's address.
Announcement of the estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations
between Israel and West Ger-
many included release of the
texts of letter between Chan-
cellor E r h a r d and Premier
E s h k o l in which the Can-
cellor significantly noted that
"the attitude of the German gov-
ernment has proved that we are
aware of the special German
position toward the Jewish peo-
ple all over the world, including
Israel."
As agreed in the lengthy nego-
tiations preceding the announce-
ment, Premier Eshkol's letter was
in the form of a reply to the Chan-
cellor's letter, indirectly stressing
the fact that the establishment of
relations was on the initiative of
Chancellor Erhard's government.
The Chancellor's letter indicated
that Israel had received satisfac-
tion on a number of outstanding
issues between the two countries.
These included settlement of the
dispute which developed when
West Germany suddenly halted the
last stages of a multimillion-dollar
arms supply to Israel because of
Arab threats; economic aid to Is-
rael; and the problem of West
Germ a n specialists working in
Cairo on advanced weapons for the
Nasser regime.
The chancellor's reference to
the suspended arms issue was
vague, saying only that the ques-
tion of remaining supplies had
been settled by "mutual agree-
ment." He said also that his gov-
ernment would enter into talks
"in the near future, i.e. two or
three months" about economic aid
to Israel. No figures were cited.
Erhard said that a large number
of the West German specialists
"engaged in activities in the mili-
tary sphere in countries outside
NATO" had returned voluntarily
to West Germany in recent months
and that he expected more to do
so. For the rest, he declared that
"all means provided by law" were
being used against nationals en-
gaged in such activities.
He expressed the hope that the
decision would "pave the way into
a happier future of the relations of
our two nations."
Premier E s h k o 1 replied in
LONDON — (JTA) — One of
the new streets in Moscow named
for war heroes on the 20th anni-
versary° of the end of World war
II bears the name of Simon Law-
otchkin, a Jewish plane designer
and wartime test pilot, it was re-
ported here from the Soviet Capi-
tal.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, May 21, 1965
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kind, expressing gratification but
noting "the somber historical
background"—a reference to the
Nazi slaughter of 6,000,000 Euro-
pean Jewish men, women and
children—"and a stormy political
one."
The Premier expressed the hope
that West Germany would "speed-
ily dispose" of the problem of the
specialists in Egypt and cited one
item of indifferences which the
Chancellor had not mentioned—the
statute of limitations on prosecu-
of Nazi war criminals in West Ger-
many which the Parliament re-
cently postponed for 4 1/2 years.
Indirectly in d i c a t i n g that Is-
rael was not satisfied with that
action, the Israeli Premier cited
"the importance which I have al-
ways attached to the question of
the cancellation" of the statute.
Premier Eshkol lauded the Chan-
cellor's role in the historic deci-
sion, declaring that it was Erhard's
"personal initiative and determi-
nation" which led to "a satisfac-
tory solution" of the outstanding
issues between the two countries
as a preliminary to the agreement
on the diplomatic exchange.
In Bonn, Dr. Eugen Gerstenmair,
president of the Bundestag, the
lower house of Parliament, ex-
pressed "pleasure" over the an-
nouncement. He told a press con-
ference that he would "not have
dared predict this a year ago." He
added that "the main point is that
a solution has been found to the
question of weapons" but did not
elaborate on what the solution was.
Karl Guenther von Hase, the gov-
ernment press spokesman, told
newsmen that Erhard had written
to the governments of the 13-mem-
ber countries of the Arab League,
explaining why Bonn had recog-
nized Israel and asking for their
understanding. But one after an-
other the Arab states commenced
to break relations with Bonn over
the Israel issue.
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