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Improved. Franco-Israel Relations`
Foreseen With Pompidou Successor
By EDWIN EYTAN
JTA European Bureau Chief
PARIS (JTA) — The death
of French President Georges
Pompidou is certain to spell
a change. Some observers al-
ready saw an improvement
in .the tortuous path of
Franco-Israeli relations.
Whatever the outcome of
the forthcoming presidential
electiOns, due to take place
between April 22 and May 7,
a new chapter probably will
be opened in the history of
Franco-Israeli ties.
Pompidou, who assumed
the presidency in 1969 at
what was then thought to be
the lowest ebb of Franco-
Israeli relations, gave a fur-
ther turn to the pro-Arab
policy initiated by his pre-
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decessor, General de Gaulle,
on the eve of the Six-Day
War.
It was during Pompidou's
fifth-year tenure that the
French arms embargo be-
came officially total, that
France concluded an agree;
ment for a massive sale of
French-made war plans to
Libya, that Paris tried to
organize Europe into a pro-
Arab bloc and that France
openly courted and vowed
the oil-rich Arab states.
Those who knew Pompidou
will say that two factors con-
tributed to give a personal
turn to his pro-Arab stand.
In the "Cherbourg Affair,"
Israeli commandos on Christ-
mas Eve 1969 seized and took
off with five Israeli-owned
but French-embargoed gun
boats lying in Cherbourg
Harbor. Pompidou, accord-
ing to Elysee confidantes, felt
at the time that he had per-
sonally been turned into the
laughing stock of France and
all Europe.
Many Israelis later felt
that the possession of the
five gun boats, 'ordered by
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan and negotiatied by the
defense ministry's represen-
tative in France, Adm. Mor-
dehai Limon, had not been
worth the political price Is-
rael later had to pay.
The second incident occur-
red in February 1970 when
Jewish demonstrators pro-
testing the French sale of
110 Mirage planes to Libya,
booed and even physically
jostled the president and his
wife during their trip to the
United States. People close
to Pompidou .say that ' he
never forgot tfie scene which
occurred in the lobby of his
Chicago hotel when he found
himself surrounded by an
aggressive Jewish crowd.
In recent years, while not
changing the actual essence
of his policy, Pompidou tried
to improve his manner. On
New Year's Day 1971, he
walked up to the Israeli am-
bassador in Paris, Asher Ben
Natan, in full view of the
diplomatic corps and warmly
greeted him with a loud
"Shalom."
Shortly before his death, he
approved an exchange of
visits between the Israel and
French foreign ministers.
The Israeli minister, Abba
Eban, was to have arrived
on May 15 in Paris on his
first official visit to France
since 1967. Michel Jobert was
due to visit Israel next Sep-
tember — the first French
minister ever to have paid
a visit to the Jewish state.
The president's death
leaves a political vacuum in
France. The Gaullist major-
ity . is disunified and even
split behind a number of
possible contenders. Two,
however, stand out: Former
Premier Jacques Chaban-
Delmas and Finance Minister
Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
Both are known to favor a
friendlier attitude toward Is-
rael.
The friendlier of the two,
and the politically more in-
dependent, is Chaban-Delmas,
Pompidou's first prime min-
ister. A few days after Porn-
pidou's election to the presi-
dency and Chaban's appoint-
ment as prime minister, the
former premier said in an
interview with Radio Europe
Number One (June 27,- 1969)
that France may lift its arms
embargo on Israel. It later
became known that he was
_overruled by Pompidou.
Alain Poher, president of
the senate, will serve as in-
terim president until the
election of a new chief execu-
tive.
Poher is a member of the
chairman of the board of the
"France-Israel Alliance." He
is very active in the -"Soli-
darity Committee for Jews
in Arab Countries," of which
he is a former president.
In memory of Pompidou, a
special service was to be
held Tuesday in the "Grande
Synagogue" of Paris, the
central consistories of France
and Paris announced.
• According to unofficial re-
ports, the French president
died of multiple myeloma, a
cancer of the bone marrow
described by medical diction-
aries as fatal within six to
24 months of its onset. He
was 62.
In a message of sympathy
to Mrs. Claude Pompidou,
French Chief Rabbi Jacob
Kaplan and Central Consis-
tory President Alain de
Rothschild expressed their
"emotion and stupefaction"
and paid tribute to "the
moral and physical courage
of the chief of state who
assumed his heavy -responsi-
bilities up to the last limits
of his strength, despite the
repeated attacks of a cruel
disease."
Meany Blasts
Detente Talks
NEW YORK — Georg e
Meany, president bf the AFL-
CIO hit the Nixon adminis-
tration-initiated detente with
the Soviet Union by calling
it a fraud advantageous only
to the Soviets.
Speaking' at a dinner of the
National Trade Union Coun-
cil for Human Rights of the
Jewish Labor Committee,
Meany also remarked on the
outcome of the meeting of
Secretary of State Henry Kis-
singer and Communist Party
chief Leonid I. Brezhnev in
which both officials express-
ed optimism about improving
U.S.-Soviet relations.
"When this gang gets opti-
mistic, I get pessimistic,"
Meany said. "I've got a wick-
ed memory," he said adding
that talk of detente abounded
just before the outbreak of
the 1967 Six-Day War.