The West German Government is considering cutting off reparations deliveries to Israel in order to preserve a position of neutrality in reference to the Middle East situation, the New York Times reported from Bonn today. The dispatch quoted Felix von Eckardt, press chief of the Federal Government, as saying that the problem was “under study.”
Von Eckardt pictured the Bonn Government as looking to the United Nations Security Council for guidance on future reparations deliveries. If Israel is declared an aggressor, the Times dispatch said, Germany “will be inclined to suspend further shipments on the ground that not to do so would constitute indirect support of Israel’s warlike action.”
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