Completing a six week lecture tour in the United States, Eric Lueth, founder of the “Peace with Israel” movement in West Germany, today described his visit as “a kind of a pilgrimage to Jewish survivors of Nazi terrorism” now living in the U.S. Mr. Lueth, whose visit was sponsored by the State Department and the American Christian Palestine Committee, said he had been “most touched by invitations to speak in the synagogues of America and by the generosity with which I was received at Jewish gatherings.”
Mr. Lueth, who leaves for home tomorrow, declared that “Germany has a special responsibility in helping to bring about Arab-Israel peace” because of the Hitler persecutions. The head of the Society for Christian and Jewish Cooperation in Germany cited West Germany’s experience in absorbing nine million Germans from Communist Germany as an example for the Arab states in handling the problem of 900,000 Arab refugees.
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