1.
LV.HAMMERSCHMIDT PALACE
0.03

2.
SV.MR. BEN-NATHAN ARRIVES AND UP STEPS INTO PALACE
0.22

3.
SV.INT...BEN-NATHAN AND HERR HOLLEBEN SHAKE HANDS
0.42

4.
CU.MR. BEN-NATHAN
0.46



Initials AK/BHH/JG



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Background: ISRAEL'S FIRST AMBASSADOR TO WEST GERMANY, MR.ASHER BEN-NATHAN, PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN BONN TODAY (TUESDAY).

WITH THE 45-MINUTE CEREMONY THE ESTABLISHMENT WAS COMPLETED OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL AND WEST GERMANY.

FEW PEOPLE WERE ON HAND TO WATCH MR.BEN-NATHAN DRIVE TO THE PALAIS HAMMERSCHMIDT ON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE.THESE FEW WERE IN MARKED CONTRAST TO THE HUNDREDS OF ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATORS WHO FOUGHT WITH POLICE IN JERUSALEM LAST WEEK AS THE FIRST WEST GERMAN AMBASSADOR, DR.ROLF PAULS, PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS.

THE BITTERNESS OF THE JERUSALEM CROWDS WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE WEST GERMAN REPUBLIC IS THE LEGAL SUCCESSOR OF THE NAZI STATE WHICH MURDERED SIX MILLION JEWS DURING ITS REIGN.