The Bonn Government, although anxious to maintain a position or neutrality between Israel and the Arab states, will not suspend the flow of reparations goods to the Jewish State, it was announced here today by Felix von Eckardt, Federal press chief. He pointed out that no arms or other war materiel have ever been included in the reparations shipments.
(The State Department has notified West Germany that the United States Government would be sympathetic to the withholding by Germany of reparations shipments to Israel. This was made known this week-end by State Department sources in Washington. Such a move was seen by the State Department as clearly in the spirit of the UN General Assembly resolution adopted last week. It was made known that the matter was discussed in a meeting of German Ambassador Krekeler and Robert D. Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State.)
Meanwhile, the 9,500 ton freighter Har Carmel, built for an Israeli firm under the terms of the reparations pact, will be launched on schedule Nov. 12, it was learned from the Deutsche Werft of Hamburg, the builders.
In Frankfurt yesterday, police used clubs to break up a threatened march of Arab students protesting the Anglo-French action against Egypt. Similar student demonstrations occurred in various German university towns yesterday, but attracted only mild curiosity among Germans.
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