Reparations deliveries to Israel accounted for almost one-third of all the foreign exports of West Berlin’s industry last year, Dr. F.E. Shinnar, head of the Israeli purchasing mission in Germany, declared here at a reception given in connection with the signing of a major contract for Israel reparations goods.
Dr. Shinnar told applauding Berlin manufacturers, bankers and members of the city council that Berlin had supplied one-eighth of all the goods Israel had received from Germany as reparations during the past fiscal year. The allocation of Israeli orders to Berlin firms was agreed to in the reparations pact and arrangement for the details were carried out between Dr. Shinnar and the late Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter.
Meanwhile, Hillel Dan, president of the Israeli corporation which handles German reparations goods, today arrived in Cologne, headquarters of the Israeli purchasing mission in this country, for several days of conferences with members of the mission.
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