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...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...
...moment, though, much of the Germans' hurt and dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth...
...Expiration. A second major cause for the new criticism of Germany had more justification than the arms cutoff. Last November, Erhard's Cabinet voted not to extend West Germany's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Though some 70,000 Nazi criminals have been sentenced, prosecutions pending against 13,000 others would be dropped if the statute is applied. Nearly 75% of the German mail to the Bundestag on the statute of limitations was in favor of letting the law lapse. But in the face of mounting foreign criticism, the Cabinet last week reversed itself, agreed...
...been, in its opinion, slow to acknowledge that the arms deal was born in Washington. Said a Bonn spokesman: "A statement on its part in this whole affair was only gradually wrung out of the American Government." Feeling ill-treated on all sides, and with some reason, Erhard told the Bundestag of his heartbreak at world reaction when "we thought we had grounds for hope that one would recognize our sincere attitude in our actions." Mused an asso ciate: "I have never heard the Chancel lor use the word 'sincere' so often as in the past few weeks...
Forgotten Experts. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard called a Cabinet meeting to discuss Nasser's possible motives for flouting Bonn. They were already well known and centered on a 1960 meeting at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israel's then Premier David Ben-Gurion. Adenauer, always sensitive about Germany's former crimes against the Jews, arranged to hand over $70 million worth of military equipment to Israel, with the approval-and possibly the urging-of Washington. The operation was so secret that Bonn's Foreign Ministry only discovered it by accident late...