The Israel Embassy here is expected to make diplomatic contact with the State Department in the very near future toward the end of directing American attention to the vital interest of Israel in any German settlement which may emerge from the Berlin Big Four conference, which opens next Monday.
It is possible that Israel will seek to send an observer to Berlin if this idea meets with the approval of the Four Powers. Israel is principally concerned with taking appropriate steps to assure the smooth continuation of the reparations treaty with the Bonn Government in case some change in the status of Germany emerges from the conference. It is also desired by Israel that the question of Jewish claims against East Germany be revived as part of any overall solution of the German question.
Meanwhile, it was confirmed today that the Government of the Soviet Union, on the eve of the Berlin conference has made a bid for German favor by announcing the release from prison of 6,143 Nazi war criminals sentenced after May 9, 1945. The release of the Nazis, it was said, will be carried out by the Soviet Ministry of the Interior and “the persons to be released will be treated as citizens of equal rights.”
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