Victor Larock, former Belgian Foreign Minister, proposed today the establishment of an international agreement for a general and controlled termination of the arms race in the Middle East as “the most honorable way” for the Bonn Government to “get out from an imbroglio that did not add anything to its prestige.” He said this solution to the crisis, which developed when West Germany canceled arms shipments to Israel, was regarded as extremely desirable by impartial observers.
Reactions by the Belgian press to the West German decision against arms deliveries to Israel today were generally critical of the Bonn Government and praised Premier Levi Eshkol’s statement on the subject in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, earlier this week.
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