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With national elections due next September, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Christian Democrats can only hope that the next six months will go better for them than the last. Plagued with one embarrassing problem after another-from surrendering to France on grain prices to losing out on the multilateral force to humiliation by the Arabs over Israel's recognition-Erhard's regime has sunk in national esteem to its lowest level since der Dicke took office 17 months ago. Latest poll returns show the C.D.U. trailing the Social Democrats...
...latest angry round in West Germany's hassle with Egypt last week led Chancellor Ludwig Erhard to announce that he was at last prepared to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Having made his announcement, Erhard belatedly realized that it might be important to discover Israel's sentiments in the matter...
...that end, Special Envoy Kurt Birrenbach flew to Jerusalem and was astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
Things did not go half badly. After lunch and a look at the Wall with Mayor Willy Brandt in Berlin, Wilson went on to Bonn, where he sat down with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard for an informal dinner that went on until midnight. Out of it came 1) an assurance that Erhard would look into the matter of Buying British, and 2) a book entitled A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne-a gift from Ludwig to Harold...
...known that not only France and Spain but also Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland traded in dollars for gold during the last quarter of 1964. West Germany's leading private banker, Hermann Abs, privately urged his government to exchange some of its dollars for gold (Chancellor Erhard has turned him down so far). And the Common Market issued a scolding report, predicting that its members would drain off more U.S. gold unless the U.S. quickly put its house in order...