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mr Uris David Ben Gurion's decision to sell arms to West Germany. And the resultant conflict in Israel is a big story these days. What precipitated this And is it an indication of some future actions. There are two philosophies pulling against each other in Israel, we all

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realize that Israel to take her full place in the family of nations must eventually have diplomatic exchange with West Germany on the one hand, and this is a step in that direction. Trade reparations and uh investments of the West Germans and Israel on the other hand,

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we have one third of the population who has suffered terribly from german persecution. And each one of these people in Israel probably represents the remainder of a family of Anywhere from 15 to 25 relatives. And whereas it's easy for us to sit here and say, let's

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forgive and forget. Perhaps our view would not be so benevolent had we have lost our all our immediate family. Think just a series of long, hard steps. It's a little rockets, Israel's little rock in in in a in a in a manner of speaking, there have

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been other relations and trade. There are now german ships entering Israeli ports, we see little signs of progress like three years ago when I was in Israel, you wouldn't see a german car on the road today. You see hundreds of them. In addition to the reparations

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made to the government. Uh There are reparations made to individuals and this is a lot of times taken out in german goods. There are now german tourists in Israel a few to begin with. There are a few german students in the Hebrew University, so it's slow

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and design. What do you think? Will he resign over this? Well, he want to vote a confidence. Yes, but it was split and he said if there was any dissention, he would resign. Well, if you know that one, you tell me, I don't know. I don't

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believe Ben Gurion is going to resign if he were to resign, who would replace him? That's an interesting question too. I think Israel has many men of outstanding caliber. Of course, you only have one Ben Gurion to a country and a half a century. You can't

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expect anymore. There's only one Gandhi, there's only one Churchill, there was only one Roosevelt. No one will exactly fill Babe ruth shoes. But there are some very, very fine men. I could name a dozen of them. Anyone I think would do a splendid job. That's one

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of the names that would be mentioned naturally. I have my own choice. I'd rather not say