Dr. Rolf Lahr, head of the West German delegation to the Israeli-West German economic aid talks, said today he was optimistic that the talks, which will be resumed here tomorrow, would “end in a positive manner.”
Predicting that the second round of the talks would not be protracted, Dr. Lahr, who is also State Secretary in the West German Government, said that the previous talks “were in the direction of a satisfactory conclusion and they were more difficult than those to be held now. “
Dr. Lahr declared that an agreement on West German economic aid to Israel could be completed “immediately after we place our offers on the table. ” The debate over whether then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer promised then Premier David Ben-Gurion the sum of $500, 000, 000 in such aid at a 1960 New York meeting also came up in Dr. Lahr’s comments. He said that Dr. Adenauer had only expressed support for the principle of West German aid but that no sum had been mentioned in the New York meeting.
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