Acting Premier and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett today announced in Parliament that Israel had communicated its views on the German problem to the Big Four Powers who are scheduled to begin a discussion of a German peace pact next Monday in Berlin.
Replying to a demand for discussion of Israel’s representations to the Big Four–made by Communist and Mapam deputies–Mr. Sharett said that Israel had dispatched notes to the Big Four and had assigned an observer to the Berlin conference to present Israel’s views on East German reparations for damages suffered by Jews during the Nazi regime. He added that Israel had many times made known to the Big Powers its fears of a revival of Nazism and the dangers of re-arming Germany.
Opposing a debate asked by Herut leader Dr. Arieh Altmann on the United States plans to arm the Arab states, Mr. Sharett voiced his government’s strongest opposition to the arming of any of the Arab states so long as they persist in maintaining a state of war with Israel. However, he asked that a debate be delayed because the matter was scheduled to be discussed in the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee.
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