Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Birrenbach, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol prodded Bonn for action on 1) extending the statute of limitation to permit the arrest and trial of Nazi murderers still at large, 2) forcing the return home of German scientists working on Egypt's rocket program, and 3) resuming the shipment of arms to Israel suspended last month because of Nasser's protests...
...naturalized U.S. citizen, born of German Jewish parents who were the victims of persecution and ultimate death in concentration camps, I have been trying to understand and forgive Germany, but Bonn and its wavering policies make this difficult...
...sign of perfection along the Nile last week, for Ulbricht was an expensive guest in a febrile situation. Nasser had invited Ulbricht as a way of getting even with West Germany for its secret arms shipments to Israel. When suspension of the shipments failed to head off the visit, Bonn retaliated. Over the past six years Bonn has supplied Egypt with more than $400 million in hard currency loans and development aid, and last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard canceled all further financial support...
Backing Nasser, the 13-member Arab League warned that resumption of the arms shipments would force them to break relations with Bonn and, presumably, recognize the East German regime. Still, Nasser was moving carefully. He withheld full recognition from East Germany, and in a remarkable aside to Ulbricht, he said: "I needn't explain to you the deplorable and painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with...
Deep Regret. Replied Bonn's ambassador to Washington, Heinrich Knappstein, in letters about the ad: "I was appalled ... I deeply regret this attack on a government and a people who have done everything in their power-as far as this is possible at all-to make up for the past." Some Germans wanted to do even more. For all the ties developed over the years, Bonn has never formally recognized the state of Israel. Last week German students in West Berlin paraded for Israeli recognition as one answer to Germany's critics...