A spokesman for the Foreign Office here said today that charges of past membership in the Hungarian Arrow Cross by Dr. Alexander Toerock, Number Two man in West Germany’s mission in Israel, are “erroneous.” “We have no reason whatever,” said the spokesman, “to doubt his political past or his statements.”
An official pointed out that, prior to his appointment to the post in Israel, Dr. Toerock had assured the Foreign Office he had no Nazi past. “It is unbelievable that Dr. Toerock would have lied to the Foreign Minister or would have dared go to Israel as deputy chief of the German Embassy there if he had, in fact, been a member of the Arrow Cross, “the Foreign Office spokesman said. Political circles here noted that the charges against Dr. Toerock emanated from Communist sources in Budapest.
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