- Title: ISRAEL: ANGRY SCENES AS WEST GERMAN AMBASSADOR ARRIVES TO SEE PRESIDENT SHAZAR
- Date: 19th August 1965
- Summary: POLICE WAITING NEAR PALACE, DEMONSTRATORS WITH ANTI-NAZI POSTERS, DR. PAULS ARRIVING, GUARD OF HONOUR STANDING TO ATTENTION AS GERMAN ANTHEM PLAYED, POLICE CLASHING WITH DEMONSTRATORS, INJURED WOMAN ON GROUND, AND OTHERS CARRIED STRUGGLING TO VANS. Initials DE/V/RM/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd September 1965 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM, ISRAELI SECTOR
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA8HIE8YBJU3TKHQX3GC1U4OGU3
- Story Text: THERE WERE ANGRY SCENES OUTSIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN JERUSALEM TODAY (THURSDAY) WHEN THE NEW WEST GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, DR. ROLF PAULS, ARRIVED TO PRESENT HIS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT ZALMAN SHAZAR. SEVERAL THOUSAND JEWS SHOUTED AND WAVED POSTERS AS DR. PAULS ARRIVED. THERE WERE CLASHES WITH POLICE -- AND SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE INJURED. OTHERS WERE ARRESTED AND TAKEN AWAY IN POLICE VANS.
A LARGE FORCE OF POLICE THREW A CORDON AROUND THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE TO KEEP THE DEMONSTRATORS OUT. BUT MANY BROKE THROUGH SHOUTING ANGRY SLOGANS SUCH AS "OUT WITH THE NAZI". OTHERS STOOD QUIETLY, GRIM-FACED, AS THE AMBASSADOR ARRIVED IN HIS CAR. MANY CARRIED POSTERS.
AS POLICE TRIED TO CONTROL THE CROWD, TEMPERS BECAME FRAYED -- AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SCUFFLES. SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE INJURED AS POLICE RESORTED TO FORCE.
THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND WEST GERMANY. THEY WERE ANGERED TOO AT THE CHOICE OF DR. PAULS AS THE FIRST AMBASSADOR. HE WAS A SENIOR OFFICER IN THE GERMAN ARMY DURING THE HITLER REGIME. THIS IS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OR DEMONSTRATIONS THAT HAVE BROKEN OUT SINCE THE AMBASSADOR'S ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL ON AUGUST 11. THEY ARE ORGANISED MAINLY BY THE NATIONALIST OPPOSITION HERUTH PARTY.
AS DR. PAULS ARRIVED, THE GERMAN NATIONAL ANTHEM AS PLAYED -- TO A SALUTE FROM A TANK CORPS GUARD-OF-HONOUR.
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