Officials of the West German Government today indicated that the sum of $750,000,000 which the German delegation at The Hague talks accepted as the amount of compensation due Israel should not be considered an offer on the part of the German Government.
The officials here emphasized that the German delegation “did not make an offer to pay $750,000,000 to Israel, “but only made a recommendation to this effect to the Bonn Government. They reiterated that the German-Israeli reparations talks must be linked with the conference on German external debts now taking place in London.
“It would be unwise to resume the German-Israeli negotiations before the West German Government has reviewed all its obligations to nations abroad and is fully informed of the country’s financial capacity to meet these obligations, one Bonn official declared.
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