GoIda, Brandt
to Trade Visits
Israel, France Agree on Mirage Payni!n!';` -
but Differences Between -Them Renia'
BONN "(JTA)—Chancellor Willy
Brandt announced Tuesday that he
PARIS, (JTA) — Israel and
has accepted an invitations from
Premier Golda Meir to visit Israel. France have reached an agree-
ment
on reimbursement for 50
He will be the first West German
chancellor ever to visit the Jewish Mirage V jet fighters embargoed
by the late President Charles de .
state.
Brandt made the announcement Gaulle on the eve of the 1967 Six-
at a luncheon of the Foreign Press
Association where he was guest of
honor. He received the invitation
Tuesday morning through Israeli
Ambassador Eliahu Ben Horin. No
date for the visit has been set.
Brandt stressed that his visiting
Israel would not affect the Bonn
Government's present policy of
seeking to restore normal diplo-
matic relations with the Arab
states. "The Arabs know that we
have good relations with Israel
and Israel knows of our wish for
a normalization of our relations
with the Arabs.
"To maintain this kind of bal-
ance is 'precisely our policy,"
Brandt said.
Day War.
But Israel has failed to achieve
a settlement of its over-all polit-
ical and diplomatic differences with
France. It apparently hoped for
this when it reversed its position
last year and agreed to accept
monetary compensation for the
supersonic planes, now obsolete.
The French and Israeli negotia-
tors met Monday. According to
reliable sources, it was their final
meeting prior to a formal signing
of their agreement. French ap-
proval of the deal was made
known at last Friday's meeting
and the Israelis informed the
French of their government's ap-
proval Monday. The agreement
The invitation from Mrs. Meir must be approved by the treasury
was long expected here, and its and the defense and foreign min-
istries before it can be signed .
delay in arriving put some strain
on the.. good relations between
The sum France will pay Is-
and
nd Israel.
rael, partly in credit for Israeli
As a result of Brandt's quick ac- purchases of French goods ,
ceptance of Mrs. Meir's invitation, comes to $75,000,000, according
sources here say Mrs. Meir will, to reliable sources. This covers
in turn, visit West Germany.
the price Israel paid originally
for the Mirages plus interest
Israel's national interests and
cordial feelings toward Brandt out- at an undisclosed rate on the
weighed Mrs. Meir's personal re- money tied up in the planes
which Israel never got.
luctance to visit West Germany.
West Germany is assisting Israel
Sources here said that all that
in many fields and is one of her remains to be worked out are two
foremost trading partners. More- small details—the length of the
over, it is ,West Germany and the credit and the rate of delivery of
NetherlandS which usually support the goods Israel will buy here.
Israel in its dealings with the
Israel had hoped to achieve an
European Common Market.
over-all rapprochement with France
Pincus Answers British Defender
of Dr. Goldmann's London Speech
on such basic issues as the Mid-
i dle East situation, French diplo-
matic initiatives, French aid to
Arab armies and the European
Common Market problem. But none
of these unsettled issues was even
broached in the Mirage talks, the
JTA learned.
Even the technical arrangements
for reimbursement gave no indica-
tion that the French were pre-
pared to go half Way. Agreement
was made possible only when Is-
rael gave up its demand for com-
pensation for breach of contract.
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have shot these people, they would
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Pincus claimed in his letter that
this deleted portion was a "repul-
sive and scandalous story . . .
which cut savagely into the sinews
of our people in the Soviet Union
who are engaged in a daily strug-
gle for freedom as they see it,
joining their people in their his-
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Fidler, who attended the con-
gress as an observer, was sharp-
ly critical at the time of the
WZO's treatment of Dr. Goldmann.
Ile claimed in a letter published
in the Jerusalem Post Jan. 26
that only incidental and anecdotal
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Louis A. material was deleted from the
Pincus, chairman of the World transcript of Dr. Goldmann's
Zionist Organization Executive, speech and claimed that the speech
has disputed the contention by as a whole reflected the position
Michael Fidler, chairman of the on Soviet Jews taken by the World
Board of Deputies of British Jews, Conference on Soviet Jewry held
that no pertinent passages were in Brussels in Feb. 1971.
deleted from the transcript of a
(Responding to Pincus' letter,
controversial speech by Dr. Na- Fidler. who is back in London,
hum Goldmann in London last said: "I regret that the chairman
December and released subse- of the executive has found it neces-
quently by the World Jewish Con- sary to give wide currency to what
press- seemed to the listeners an - insign:
In a letter published in the Jeru- ificant joke in parenthesis. But I
salem Post, Pincus contended that I think it is time to conclude this
a "nasty joke" related by Dr. Gold- I debate and get on to other things.
mann did indeed set the tone for All I would like to say is that the
his remarks on Soviet Jewry which impact of the Goldmannesque an-
caused the WZO Executive to with- ecdotes was not what Mr. Pincus
draw its invitation to Dr. Gold- makes it out to have been.")
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insane asylums. For us Israel is
an insane asylum. Let them go
there.' "
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