Johan van de Kieft, Netherlands Minister of Finance, returning from a trip to Israel, expressed today his “admiration” for all that has been accomplished in Israel. “It is incredible what has been accomplished by the people there,” the Minister said.
Mr. van de Kieft, who was a goes of Israel Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and S. S. Hoofien, the governor of the Bank Leumi, called the poll cal situation in Israel “really serious, perhaps more so than people abroad suppose.” But, he reported, the Israelis are “resolute and not at all nervous.”
The board of directors of the Bank of Amsterdam announced today their decision to purchase $400,000 worth of State of Israel bonds. The bank purchased a similar quantity of Israel bonds last year.
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