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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nSecretary Shultz/HAK\nNovember 2, 1973; 11:41 a. m.\nS:\n(missed first few words) The story is like this. That he (Poehl) is\nhere. The Embassy doesn't know it - on behalf of Brandt and Scheel\nand Schmidt. And the basic message is that they would like to\ncooperate with the U.S. in the Middle East, and they don't know\nK:\nWhy do they come to you?\nS:\nThey don't know quite how.\nK:\nWell, my question is, what's he doing seeing you if that's what he\nwants to do?\nS:\nWell, I'm just describing the situation that arose out of Schmidt's\ncall to me. I suppose Schmidt called me because I'm the person\nhe's been dealing with. But at any rate they say that they have\na great deal of sympathy for Israel's problem, they would like to\nbe helpful, they don't quite know how. They would like the upper\nechelons of the Israeli community to know that they want to be\nhelpful, but they feel it would be counterproductive for them in\ntheir problems with the Arab if they makelita big public thing.\nWhat exactly they would suggest is not clear although they, for\nexample, think they might do through the Bundesbank in effect\nmake available a line of credit line, say, $200 million, or something\nlike that on a basis where the time of repayment is not a big issue\nand interest payments could be made, and SO forth, and in a sense\nhave that credit flow via the United States to Israel. But that is\na specific thing that is an example of an implementation of a general\nstance. I talked with him some and thanked him and said this is\nreally, you know, not for me particularly. This is Mr. Kissinger's\nbailiwick and I'll call him and see where we go from there, but it\nsounds to me as though they are in a way responding to things that\nyou said and they want to get themselves into a posture where\nGermany is collaborating with the U.S.\nK:\nNo, but do they want to talk to me, or do they want me to give you\nXIXIX a message?\nS:\nThey want to be in touch with the government here and I'm sure\nthey would like to talk to you, and Poehl is here, he's available\nto come over there if you'd like to see him and sort of take this over,\nor if you would like to have some two or three people try to see what\nkinds of things in the light of this might be thought of, we can do that.\nK:\nWell, that I would like, anyway. Well, let me see whether I can find\na minute. I've got about an 18 hour schedule."
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