Israel’s former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion who, over many years, had many dealings with the late Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, arrived here today to attend Dr. Adenauer’s state funeral. With him was Felix Shinnar. Foreign Minister Abba Eban arrived a few hours before Mr. Ben-Gurion came in, and both were temporary guests at the home of Israel’s Ambassador Asher Ben-Nathan at the Bom suburb of Bad Godesburg.
Although the funeral participants include President Johnson and President de Gaulle, the German press focused much attention on the fact that Mr. Ben-Gurion had come here for the funeral. Among the first official mourners to arrive here last night was Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress. He laid a wreath of white lillies and red carnations at the foot of the catafalque in the Cabinet room of the Federal Chancellor’s office here which had been occupied for so many years by Dr. Adenauer.
Dr. H.G. Van Dam, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, issued a statement today on behalf of organized German Jewry, mourning the passing of Dr. Adenauer. On behalf of the Council, Dr. Van Dam stated: “Dr. Adenauer had in his time helped the establishment of this central and unified representative body of German Jews, and had taken a personal interest in it.”
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