The Bureau of the Socialist International, governing group of the body, with 12 countries represented, concluded its two-day session here today by voting unanimous support for the West German Socialist Democratic Party’s efforts to adopt legislation at Bonn, preventing German scientists in Egypt from helping Egypt build a war machine aimed at Israel.
Under the chairmanship of Harold Wilson, leader of the British Labor Party, the Socialist leaders adopted a resolution stating: “The Bureau of the Socialist International expressed deep concern at disclosures showing that numerous scientists still holding German Federal citizenship are actively engaged in the manufacture of weapons and other operations in Egypt, designed to bring destruction to the State of Israel, thus endangering peace in the Middle East. It welcomes the initiative which the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany has taken in the Bundestag, West Germany’s lower house of Parliament, to bring these operations to an end.”
The German Socialists had reported to the conference that they are dissatisfied with legislation on the scientists in Egypt presented to the Bundestag by the German Interior Ministry, on the grounds that such proposals would be ineffective. They said they preferred a law that would outlaw such activities under a clause in the West German Constitution forbidding all Germans to aid aggressive warfare. They reported also that, in another move, they are advocating that West Germany establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
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